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Charging $45 for GPL sources on a CD-ROM is a violation of the GPL as you can only charge for: > your cost of physically performing source distribution and it
by jameshilliard 3y ago
Charging $45 for GPL sources on a CD-ROM is a violation of the GPL as you can only charge for:
> your cost of physically performing source distribution
and it must be distributed
> on a medium customarily used for software interchange
As a CD-ROM has not been customarily used for distributing this sort of software for many years(computers don't typically even have CD-ROM drives these days) this offer is clearly not GPL compliant.
- crest 3y agoGood luck finding a lawyer without an optical drive to take your case :-P-
- jrockway 3y agoI don't think you have a case, but once you get the CD-ROM you are allowed to redistribute the content on the CD-ROM. So you can upload it to the Internet and take out a billion dollars in ads to point the way to everyone, and their little $45 CD-ROM racket goes out of business. I don't know why they wouldn't just push it to Github for free, though. Any competitor that wants to borrow their modifications will gladly cough up $45. So they're just making people mad for no reason.