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I've been reading up on this and am definitely not sure if serious...

Does the GPL allow me to sell copies of the program for money?

Yes, the GPL allows everyone to do this. The right to sell copies is part of the definition of free software. Except in one special situation, there is no limit on what price you can charge. (The one exception is the required written offer to provide source code that must accompany binary-only release.)

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney
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Here's some software with a GPL license you may have heard of. Am I reading this correctly? It's legal to sell Wordpress (and any software with a GPL)?
 
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Oh shit, son.

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Yeah, you can sell it, as long as you don't mess with the copyright notice and you give the source code away.

So by all means charge someone $1,000 for Wordpress, but pray they don't open the source code and see the big notice that says "THIS IS FREE SOFTWARE".
 
amateursurgeon said:
Yeah, you can sell it, as long as you don't mess with the copyright notice and you give the source code away.

So by all means charge someone $1,000 for Wordpress, but pray they don't open the source code and see the big notice that says "THIS IS FREE SOFTWARE".
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Well, I was just using Wordpress as a high profile example. Seems to me like there is plenty of awesome software you could write a salespage for and market :D
 
check this shit out... an open source Forex trading platform licensed under GPL

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rebrand --> Clickbank!

Product creation just got a whole lot easier :D

Nobody will see this anyways, because everybody will be busy arguing with Guerilla and Pewep and this will just fall off the front page :D
 
amateursurgeon said:
Yeah, you can sell it, as long as you don't mess with the copyright notice and you give the source code away.

So by all means charge someone $1,000 for Wordpress, but pray they don't open the source code and see the big notice that says "THIS IS FREE SOFTWARE".
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If you make it a complete support package it wouldn't matter. Everyone knows Linux is free yet Redhat has managed to somehow stay in business. Selling the whole package for what 10 years?
 
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Are you allowed to rebrand? Bundle it with non-GPL stuff?
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Yep, you can rebrand. I think bundling it with your own stuff makes it even more valuable for the customer. Instead of selling a rebranded version of whatever, you are selling the product PLUS everything else you package up for the customer (video tutorials, articles, private forum access, extras, etc).

Create an offer so affiliates have something to make money with, then let them drive all the traffic. BOOYAH
 
Garrett said:
Yep, you can rebrand. I think bundling it with your own stuff makes it even more valuable for the customer. Instead of selling a rebranded version of whatever, you are selling the product PLUS everything else you package up for the customer (video tutorials, articles, private forum access, extras, etc).

Create an offer so affiliates have something to make money with, then let them drive all the traffic. BOOYAH
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Awesome.

Now everyone let this thread die ;)
 
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Haha, I did this to build up capital for my very first PPC campaign back in 2004. I took popular opensource software like OpenOffice, ClamAV, etc ... packaged them on pretty CDs with a nice paper sleeve and sold 'em on ebay for $25. (A $14,000 value!!)

Always include the source code and you're set.

Never thought about rebranding but if you're handy with code it could work.
 
I still do this today and it works fine. You can rebrand, repackage, and rebundle with no probs. As long as you can create a front end sales page, and have a method of getting traffic, you're set.
 
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