Charging ($20) for GPL source?

[Omar Kaminski]

IAAL.

But seems it's not a legal problem, but a practical one. As I say
before, since there's a way to "bypass" it, ok.

Omar



Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Omar Kaminski wrote:
>
>> Ok, I agree. But it is a difficult for any who lives in another
>> country, for example.
>>
>> So it's almost simililar to not making the source-code avaliable.
>
> IANAL.  Now I've got that out of the way...
>
> As others have stated what the company is doing (as described) is
> permissible within the GPL.  Remember though that the GPL permits you
> (or me, or everyone) to put the binary and source on a web site and
> offer it for download at no cost.
>
> But don't take my word for it:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLRequireAvailabilityToPublic
>
>
> This has always struck me as one of the most important defences for
> keeping software free (as in beer).  In essence it only takes a
> minority of people to want to give away software at no cost for the
> effective market cost (in money) of the software to be zero or near zero.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rob
>