Re: [OS:N:] Another question about Licenses

[Chris Spencer <cspencer cait org>]

Let me make this clear.  You can charge for distribution under the GPL
but once one person has it they can choose to distribute it for free. 
You can restrict this but then it's really not a GPL license any more.

You can say "If you want to do this then it is GPL but if you want to do
this other thing with it then it is this license.

Once it is released it can not be called back.


As far as people who want to work on it and modify it they can not
charge for the code changes and they can not change the license under
the GPL.  They can charge for the distribution method.  Keep in mind
though that such things are easily circumvented as previously mentioned.

You can also use hybrid open source licenses such as Mozilla, MySQL, and
OpenOffice that allow code contributions to be owned by the parent so
that they can distribute commercial versions also.  These are not the
GPL though.


Again I point you to this page:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html

-Chris

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