Charging ($20) for GPL source?

[Arnoud Engelfriet]

Karel Kulhavy wrote:
> Sounds like somewhat a loophole in the GPL. We'll sell the source for $300 and
> make sure we manufacture them so crazily inefficiently that we can actually
> prove in a court they cost $300 to make. And then we found a nice loophole to
> prevent access to our valuable Intellectual (R) Property (TM).

First, courts would likely apply a "reasonable man" standard to
clause 3(b). You can't just say "well we let the CTO do this in
person and he costs $1200 per hour" and get away with that.

Second, if this really happens, let's put together a fund where
300 people put in $1. Buy one copy, post it on an FTP site and
*poof* goes the IP.

Arnoud

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