[14128] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP 2.6 is dangerous in the long term ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed May 25 11:15:20 1994
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 May 1994 07:38:05 PDT."
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Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 11:12:32 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
anonymous@extropia.wimsey.com says:
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
>
> Ezekial Palmer says:
> > The GNU copyleft is supposed to disallow a lot of for-profit uses.
>
> The GNU copyleft in no way prohibits any commercial use whatsoever.
> Please do not spread inaccurate rumors about copyleft.
>
> That's a pretty big statement and it's at least partly wrong. Does
> selling something count as a commercial use?
You are allowed to sell copylefted software. You just aren't allowed
to stop other people from then giving it away. There is no prohibition
on selling the software -- although one must remember that what you
end up charging is for the act of providing a copy and not for a
license for the software itself.
Perry
