[Fwd: Re: Charging ($20) for GPL source?]

[Bennett, Robert P]

That's correct.  Even the fsf charges for source code on cd:

http://www.gnu.org/order/source18.html



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> Shane M. Coughlan
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 11:06 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Charging ($20) for GPL source?]
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> Arnoud Engelfriet wrote:
> > Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> >> Btw. i would not pay $1, even if i am interested. Is it 
> open source 
> >> or not? In the moment i pay for the sources so i think its better 
> >> called "paid source".
> > 
> > It's open source because of the rights the recipient gets when he 
> > obtains the source. It's not open source because you get it 
> for free.
> 
> Arnoud makes a very good point here.  Free Software is about 
> the freedom it gives the user, not price.  There is no 
> obligation to deliver Free Software at zero cost, nor to 
> provide the source code at zero cost (though there is an 
> obligation to provide the source code).
> 
> Shane
> 
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