On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 17:04, Tarquin Mills wrote:
Peter Naulls is also trying to get me to pay 10 pounds for a copy of GNU library NCurses ported to RISC OS, I want to use it to right a gopher browser. This may not be illegal but, ...
This is a different matter. You're quite at liberty to charge people for GPLed software. Red Hat and SuSE do it every day. What you must not do, however, is prevent people you've sold it to redistributing it.
My understanding is that the charge that Peter puts on his RISC OS ports is for his time, effort, and technical support. Last time I checked, all the software he'd ported was also available for download from his website (although I do admit it's been a while since I looked, and I seem to have only received half this discussion, so they may be something fundamental in your argument that I'm missing.)
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