[Cialug] best buy selling Ubuntu

[Zachary Kotlarek]

On Jul 8, 2008, at 5:56 PM, Neal Daringer wrote:

> how is this legal?

Why wouldn't it be, so long as they comply with the term of the  
licenses for all the included software? The GPL and many other open- 
source license actively encourage redistribution, and most of those  
(including the GPL) make no prohibition against charging for the  
software itself, distribution thereof, or other services related  
thereto.

If you were around in the early GNU days you might recall their tape  
set, which was substantially more than $20. For example, the GNU  
Bulletin 1 offers the Emacs source code for $150. <http://www.gnu.org/bulletins/bull1.txt 
 >

	Zach

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