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- From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman)
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- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Date: 3 Jan 93 10:32:12
- Organization: Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139
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- The GPL says nothing about profitting by selling our software. The exact
- words in the GPL say
-
- You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy,...
-
- Some people have assumed this means you can only charge enough to recover
- the cost of physical media and shipping. Those people are wrong. Nowhere
- does the GPL say how large or small the fee can be. If nothing else,
- people could examine our own behavior. We most certainly charge more than
- it costs us to make actual copies and mail them.
-