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You can charge for GPL software but as I understand it, you can't charge something extra for the privilege of a GPL'd version of your program. If you structure
by statictype 17y ago
You can charge for GPL software but as I understand it, you can't charge something extra for the privilege of a GPL'd version of your program.
If you structured your licensing in such a way as to require this, it probably violates the GPL.
- lutorm 17y agoIf you are the copyright holder, you absolutely can. That's the entire point of the article. As a user, you can't change the licensing terms.
- statictype 17y agoThe article's position is in the opposite way. Charging extra for the right to use the software under a non-free license.
- lutorm 17y agoI just meant that the point of the article rests on the fact that the copyright holders can change the distribution terms whichever way they want. The "other" licenses won't be GPL, of course, but there's nothing preventing them from releasing under two licenses.