15 Nov
2011
15 Nov
'11
1:41 p.m.
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Tristan Matthews
<le.businessman(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
FYI, you're well within your rights to "earn
money" from GPL software, see:
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
Although you are right in the technical sense, I don't agree profiting from
other peoples work on moral grounds.
For example: http://www.illusionmage.com/ is a site that will sell you a
copy of Blender, with a rebranded logo. Because Blender is GPL, any
modifications must also be GPL. So the author of "Illusionmage" created a
patch (available http://www.illusionmage.com/disclaimer.htm) and now sells
the whole package for 47$ a pop.
Although this technically complies with the GPL, I find it abusive of the
GPL on moral grounds. I must agree with you that indeed selling GPL is
allowed in the technical sense though. -H