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Re: PGP 2.6 is dangerous in the long term ?
[email protected] says:
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
>
> Ezekial Palmer says:
> > The GNU copyleft is supposed to disallow a lot of for-profit uses.
>
> The GNU copyleft in no way prohibits any commercial use whatsoever.
> Please do not spread inaccurate rumors about copyleft.
>
> That's a pretty big statement and it's at least partly wrong. Does
> selling something count as a commercial use?
You are allowed to sell copylefted software. You just aren't allowed
to stop other people from then giving it away. There is no prohibition
on selling the software -- although one must remember that what you
end up charging is for the act of providing a copy and not for a
license for the software itself.
Perry