> The things you build have value. They're making other people billions of dollars. Charge accordingly. This is the thing about the GPL license (in general):

> The things you build have value. They're making other people billions of dollars. Charge accordingly. This is the thing about the GPL license (in general): The thing I made has value - here is my code; use it, enjoy it, as you see fit. If you make changes to it that you distribute, then as payment for the value of my code, you pay me (and the community) in code. That's the basic monetary transaction of GPL, at least as I see it. I write code, you pay for it in code. Hopefully your code has as much value as my code, but that's a chance I take (there's also a great possibility your code has -more- value than my code; ideally you'd see this as an overall increase in the value of the code as a whole for the future - kinda like rising stock value, or maybe interest gains?). No - code will not feed my family nor pay for my home, etc. Which is why I have a standard day job. But if I write something in code that I ask for code in return as payment, why not?