Re: Seeking help for learning system for absolute beginners

På Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:10:53 +0100, skrev Maciej Katafiasz  
<mathrick@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Den Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:28:39 -0500 skrev George Neuner:
>
>>> You misunderstand the GPL. There is nothing in the GPL that stops me
>>> from taking the code, wrap it and ****p it as MR_Linux, charge $50000  
>>> for
>>> the package
>>
>> Actually there is.  The GPL permits only recovery of duplication cost.
>> It would be extremely hard to justify $50,000 unless you are engraving
>> the CD bits by hand.
>
> That is untrue. I could make a distro CD and sell it for $50,000 and
> there's absolutely nothing to stop me from doing that. What you mean is
> that I'd be required to distribute source I used to build it, but that's
> an entirely different matter.

This is not an entirely other matter. You have to release the changes to  
the person who GPL'ed it who has full right to make it public. Thus if you
 
charge 10 000$ for it and a potential customer finds he can get the source
 
and compile (and then distribute) it himself no one would buy it.
That is why in practice it works more along the lines I said. (When did  
you last pay 1000$ for a Linux distribution?)

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John Thingstad