Re: PGP 2.6 is dangerous in the long term ?

17 Dec 2003


      anonymous@extropia.wimsey.com says:
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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