You can charge, but you can not charge whatever you want, as indicated by this section of the GPL:
--snip-- 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange --snip--
If you distribute the source seperately from the binary, you may only charge "no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution", which is generally very little.
You may charge whatever you want to distribute the original package containing the binaries (And the source if you're so inclined as to include it in the same package). But if you decide to ship the source seperately, you may not charge a large fee for access to the source.
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Re:GPL is hurting small derivative distros
Posted by: Jeremy Akers on July 18, 2006 10:42 AM--snip--
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange
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If you distribute the source seperately from the binary, you may only charge "no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution", which is generally very little.
You may charge whatever you want to distribute the original package containing the binaries (And the source if you're so inclined as to include it in the same package). But if you decide to ship the source seperately, you may not charge a large fee for access to the source.
-Jeremy
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