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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: GPL and QPL licenses?
From:       Steven Hatfield <ashari () knightswood ! net>
Date:       2002-07-26 12:22:37
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Stephan Hermann wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> after all, I ask again:
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> 
> On Thursday 25 July 2002 23:34, Rolf Magnus wrote:
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>>On Thursday 25 July 2002 20:13, Stephan Hermann wrote:
>>
>>>>As long as your app is open source, you are fine.
>>>
>>>so, you _can_ sell your app with including it's code and putting it under
>>>the GPL.
>>
>>Yes. Actually, that's what distributors are doing. You can sell it, but
>>since it's under GPL, everyone you distribute your app to has the right to
>>do the same, or to give it away at no cost.
> 
> 
> Ok, my app with code under GPL I could sell.

yeah, you can.  The GPL is about "Free as in Speech", not "Free as in 
beer".  You can charge money for your program, just as long as the 
person who buys the software gets the source code along with it.

> 
> But, 
> 
> can I sell every app/lib/etc., when it's under GPL, with including the source?
> Doesn't it break the philosophy of QT or e.g. MySQL ?

That's what RedHat is doing -- selling MySQL, QT, KDE, along with a 
bazillion other programs -- as a distribution. It doesn't break any 
philosophy, because of what I said above.

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> \sh
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> - -- 
> St. Hermann, Troisdorf
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Regards,
Steven

 
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