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Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free softwareMark Shuttleworth on companies and free softwarePosted May 20, 2011 13:14 UTC (Fri) by wookey (subscriber, #5501)In reply to: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software by sdalley Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software
Interpretation of the GPL. The GPL allows to charge for "support" and "the cost of physically transferring a copy". It does not forbid donations. I think you're confusing source and binary distribution rules here. Nothing in the GPL prevents making a charge for binaries. The rules are about charges for source (if it's not already accompanying the binaries). http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html Actually selling GPLed binaries isn't practised much because everyone else can give it away so the price is strongly driven towards zero. And almost all entities just start there and leave it there. Buy people do pay for GPLed software in various circumstances, e.g from app stores (or at last I assume they do).
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