On Fri, 14 May 2004, Paul Jakma wrote:
> > NB: Even the recipient has a right to:
> >
> > "charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy"
>> Ah, if we contrast with 3b:
>> "for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source
> distribution"
>> We can see that where 3b specifically limits the charge, hence the
> lack of limitation in implies the fee is arbitrary. So anyone can
> charge what they like for GPL software.
I can see what you're getting at, but I'm appalled.
If a company protects their extensions to a GPL work behind a $HUGE
copying fee, they have de facto taken away source code access.
Unless there is a ceiling on the physical copying cost, there is no
difference between GPL and BSD licenses, because the extra freedoms
provided by the GPL can in this way be extorted shut.
Ronan
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