On Sunday 07 October 2007 12:57:16 Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2007-10-06 at 22:56 -0400, François Pinard wrote:
[Richard Creighton]
There is a license (the GPL) which tells you what the limitations are (dammed near none), you basically can't sell [Linux], but you can use it or give it away.
You may sell GPL'ed software, nothing forces you to give it. However, you ought to unconditionally provide full sources in some form, and make sure you forward all the freedom you received yourself. In particular, you may not sell sources separately, nor forbid your customer to freely give the GPL'ed software he got from you, if s/he feels like doing so.
Which means that there is very little point in selling it, as your client can give it for free to your own future possible clients.
If they want to give away something they had to pay for, sure. But they can't give away secondary benefits, such as support -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org