[H-GEN] GPL licensing

Jason Parker-Burlingham jasonp at panix.com
Thu Sep 11 07:28:04 EDT 2003


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Sandra Milne <fakungabubu at internode.on.net> writes:

> Nick Kwiatkowski wrote:
>> Unfortunately, WineX is not based upon the wine code base. WineX is
>> based on the "rewind" stream, which is an off shoot, and people
>> like transgaming can't under the GPL license charge money for
>> additions to GPL code [1].
> Isn't this whole 'you can't charge money for a GPL fork' an urban
> myth? I'm fairly certain you can, you just can't discriminate etc etc.

You can charge money for a copy of a GPLed program, but no matter
whether you sell it or give it away for free, you have to give (FSVO
"give") the recipient a copy of the source code, too.

jason, http://www.gnu.org/cgi-bin/license-quiz.cgi
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