[Ilugc] About GPL !

From: kannan.krishnan@xxxxxxx (kannan.krishnan@xxxxxxx)
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 14:46:19 +0530

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I feel the core of the GNU license is not the cost, but the "Freedom" to
have the source code and do any thing with it".

Kannan Krishnan
Target - 3D Appls Offshore
Tata Consultancy Services
Cell:- 9840182745
Mailto: kannan.krishnan@xxxxxxx
Website: http://www.tcs.com

ilugc-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/05/2004 01:59:36 PM:

From: K.Sriram [mailto:metallica_tony@xxxxxxxxx]
Subject: [Ilugc] About GPL !

Accompany it ( ur dist media, cd, floppy etc.) with a written

offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for
a charge no more than your >>cost of physically performing source
distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding
source code, to be distributed under the terms >of Sections 1 and 2
above on a medium customarily used for software interchange.

Here they hav said that u must not charge no more than your cost

made in buying, writing ur software in a media and transferring it
to the customer. So >>what abt the programmers' effort ? I can't
understand this.

At one point they hav said that u can sell for any cost, and at

another they hav said that u shud not charge no more than ur cost of
performing the >distribution.

Can anyone explain?

You can charge anything you want for the binary. However, to those
who buy the binary, the source should either be freely available or
available at a nominal charge for creation of the media which
contains the source and for transportation of that media.

I think that with some thought it would be pretty obvious why this
clause is put in.
We don't want people charging 5000 rupees for the binary and a
billion rupees for source-code delivery charges. That would make the
GPL useless.

The aim is that if the binary is being distributed (at any price),
the source should be free of charge. (Or just enough to cover
bandwidth or transportation charges.)

gavri
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 I feel the core of the GNU license is
not the cost, but the  "Freedom" to have the source
code and do any thing with it".  
 
Kannan Krishnan 
Target - 3D Appls Offshore 
Tata Consultancy Services 
Cell:- 9840182745 
Mailto: kannan.krishnan@xxxxxxx 
Website: http://www.tcs.com
 
 <tt>ilugc-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/05/2004 01:59:36
PM: 
 
> >From: K.Sriram [mailto:metallica_tony@xxxxxxxxx] 
> >Subject: [Ilugc] About GPL ! 
> > 
> >Accompany it ( ur dist media, cd, floppy etc.) with a written
 
> offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for
 
> a charge no more than your >>cost of physically performing source
 
> distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding
 
> source code, to be distributed under the terms >of Sections 1 and
2 
> above on a medium customarily used for software interchange. 
> > 
> > Here they hav said that u must not charge no more than your cost
 
> made in buying, writing ur software in a media and transferring it
 
> to the customer. So >>what abt the programmers' effort ? I can't
 
> understand this. 
> 
> > At one point they hav said that u can sell for any cost, and
at 
> another they hav said that u shud not charge no more than ur cost
of 
> performing the >distribution. 
> 
> >Can anyone explain?   
> 
> 
> You can charge anything you want for the binary. However, to those
 
> who buy the binary,  the source should either be freely available
or 
> available at a nominal charge for creation of the media which 
> contains the source and for transportation of that media. 
> 
> I think that with some thought it would be pretty obvious why this
 
> clause is put in. 
> We don't want people charging 5000 rupees for the binary and a 
> billion rupees for source-code delivery charges. That would make the 
> GPL useless. 
> 
> The aim is that if the binary is being distributed (at any price),
 
> the source should be free of charge. (Or just enough to cover 
> bandwidth or transportation charges.) 
> 
> 
> gavri 
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