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[Ernst Murnleitner]

Hello,

Am Dienstag, den 11.09.2007, 18:59 -0400 schrieb chris h:
> On Tuesday 11 September 2007 17:54:22 Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> .. You need to contact the owner of the specific icons you are using.  From
> > the website: "If you want to use icons commercially, you'll have to pay
> > the author of the icons or arrange a special arangement with the
> > author."   This is incompatible with the GPL.
> 
> Actually Im going to have to disagree with this statement. GPL does not speak 
> to costs, rather to access to code. We had a very similar arrangements on our 
> product line when I worked for Corel Computer which seems a very long time 
> ago now. As long as the authors do not put restrictions on commercial 
> redistribution then its perfectly legitimate I would argue. 

I cannot agree with you. I think Tauno is correct. Under the GPL it is
allowed to charge your customer, this is true. But under the GPL, the
one who has got the Software can than sell it or give it away without
earning money, just as he wants. And this is clearly not compatible with
the above mentioned statement "... to pay the author ...".

Summary: You can sell GPL software to a price as high as you want, but
your customer can also sell it or even give it away for free! This is at
least how I have understood the GPL.

Greetings

Ernst

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