On 2017-11-07, Ywe Cærlyn <em...@xn--ywecrlyn-m0a.net> wrote: I hate replying to a post about licenses, but you're missing something fundamental here...
> The real song > of the GNU licence is this. And "thou shall make no money". Not at all. It is perfectly allowed to charge money for GPL software. You just have to provide an offer of the source code *to people who you have given the binaries to*. (Sure, they can then pass this on to other people. But you can also have e.g. copyrighted documentation without which the code is not really very useful. Or maybe those people won't want to hand it out for free anyway). GPL is also used by some as some kind of "free trial" of commercial libraries (especially happens with crypto, it seems). You're allowed to use them as part of your software, but if you want to distribute as closed-source, you'll then need to arrange a commercial license instead. The complexity of it is also a good way for copyright/license lawyers to make money too, of course.
