From: Scott M. <dar...@ya...> - 2011-10-20 22:06:39
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You might be right but I do not believe so. When I worked on Warzone2100 (before/after the source release) I know that we could have used the GPLed WZ engine to create whatever we wanted and sell it *PROVIDED* the source code was released with the binary. AH HA! I looked it up real quick and here's the answer straight from the GPL faq (v3 but should apply to all others) Does the GPL allow me to sell copies of the program for money? (#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney) Yes, the GPL allows everyone to do this. The right to sell copiesis part of the definition of free software. Except in one special situation, there is no limit on what price you can charge. (The one exception is the required written offer to provide source code that must accompany binary-only release.) And fully defined here http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html ________________________________ From: Claudio Freire <kla...@gm...> To: Scott Monk <dar...@ya...> Cc: "veg...@li..." <veg...@li...> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 5:38 PM Subject: Re: [Vegastrike-devel] Free Game Alliance On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Scott Monk <dar...@ya...> wrote: > Under a GPL license you can still sell your product provided the source is > included. The project has already done this as far as I understand it though > I don't know for how much. Mostly it depends on the type of license used by > the libraries and as I have read few of those, the ones I have read require > that their particular library must remain external from the main binary. I don't remember VS being sold at any point. Maybe before I was part of the project? The GPL, AFAIK and IANAL, only allows charging for distribution costs. IE: how much it costs to burn and mail the DVD. |