Re: GPL and software I have written
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:43:01AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Of course he can. Nothing in the GPL forbids charging (and, of course,
> nothing in the GPL restricts the author in any way).
It's not true that nothing in the GPL restricts the author in any
way. If an author releases code under the GPL, s/he must either make
the source available, or change the license. Just because someone is
the author does not give him/her special rights to violate the
license. (Whether a court would uphold that, by acting contrary to
the GPL, the author was making a _de facto_ change to the license is
quite another matter, since no-one's ever tested it.)
A
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