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Ten times cost.

Ten times cost.

Posted Jan 24, 2006 5:59 UTC (Tue) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322)
In reply to: 3 years by drag
Parent article: Suits and Patents: A Report from the GPLv3 Launch Conference

> it's always been possible to recoup the expenses caused by
> distributing the source code. (at least in GPLv2, I assume
> they didn't change it in GPLv3 draft)

They did change it. You're now allowed to charge up to ten
times what it costs you to distribute source, rather than
provide source at cost.


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