Hmm...If you think of this as "Free Speech, not Free Beer..." Newspapers
charge for their free speech...I believe that Lycoris can charge as much as
they reasonably want. Is $500 too much? I don't know, but RMS himself charged
$150 a pop for each copy of Emacs that he copied for people when he was busy
authoring the GNU OS, though, this was in the 80's and really before the
internet was any kind of factor....
Russell Hires
On Wednesday 06 February 2002 05:32 am, you wrote:
> From the Lycoris web-site (Formerly Redmond Linux -
> http://www.lycoris.com/products/ :
>
> "Lycoris Desktop/LX is currently priced at just $29.95. This includes 60
> days of e-mail support and a 30 page installation guide. Desktop/LX
> Deluxe, which includes the source code and DevTools on two extra CD's,
> is currently priced at $39.95."
>
> Now, I'm no Guru with the GPL, but aren't you supposed to make the
> source code available to anyone that asks who has purchased your product
> (regardless of wheter you include it with the product or not)? Why then
> is it that this company asks you to pay for it? Mind you, it's not
> exactly very much - I don't forsee hordes of geeks storming the gates at
> this place - but it's the principle with which I'm concerned. Or am I
> just exagerating and is this actually covered by the "charging for the
> medium" clause?
>
> Gnorb
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