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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [OT] some weird GPL licensing questions
From:       Andreas Pour <pour () mieterra ! com>
Date:       2004-02-13 17:51:27
Message-ID: 402D0E9F.4271600 () mieterra ! com
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Alexander Neundorf wrote:

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> Let's say I (in the case I would be an until now proprietary-only developing
> software company) would decide to make a library dual-licensed GPL and
> commercial, I wouldn't *have* to put the GPL sources on a website, right ?
> I would only have to ensure that everybody who buys the binary version from me
> is able to get the sources for the binary, maybe he has to send me a mail and
> then I send him the sources. Right ?
> Would I actually be allowed to sell this software ? I.e. would it be ok to say
> "give me 500 euro and you get the GPL binary library, and if you ask for it,
> I'll send you also the sources". Of course as soon as he would have received
> the sources he would be allowed to make them available for free on his
> webpage. Right ?

Of course he can also make the GPL binary library available for free - or for
400 Euro, but you can see how this price-war ends up in free pretty quickly - on
his webpage, so you might get the 500 Euro once, but never again.

Ciao,

Dre
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