Your name is not Norwegian. What's going on here? On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> 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. > > >
