[Gllug] Query on PD software licencing

[Andrew Halliwell]

And verily, didst t.clarke announce to the hordes:
> 
> Re John's licencing problem
> 
> 'providing no financial gain is made' would seem to be the key statement
> 
> If the user group were charging a mere 3quid for a CD, which comprised a
> load of other programs plus the 'offending' one, it would seem reasonable to
> put to the member concerned that there was no financial gain since the 3quid
> merely defrayed the physical cost of copying and distributing.  After all,
> the likes of Cheap-Linux have been charging nominal amounts for Linux CD
> distributions for years, and I believe they are still doing so without threat
> of Linus or anyone else taking them to court.

But Linus CAN'T take them to court... Even if they charged 100 quid per CD.
The GPL allows distributions of GPL software to be sold for any amount.
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