Re: copyright

[jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl]

On Sep 15, joost witteveen wrote
> > i think this copyright is ok. but to be sure  : here it is.
> 
> Copyright for what?
> > 4. Since you were given these sources FREE, you will not charge any money
> >    for redistributing them. You may charge reasonable amount of money
> >    (<$10) for your redistribution only.
> [..]
> > i hope the <$10 doesn't hurt... ok ?
> 
> It does.  It's non-free.
[...]
> Anyway, the DFSG say there can be no restriction on the amount of money
> the CD's are sold for.

Yes. It might be useful to point libgif's author to some of the FSF's
material on this: in "Selling Free Software"
(http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/selling.html) Richard Stallman addresses
questions like "Will a higher distribution price hurt some users?" and "Will
a higher distribution price discourage use of free software?".

Ray
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