MJ Ray wrote:
Peter Gerwinski peter@gerwinski.de writes:
However this fee must be nontrivial in order to compensate for the big lot of work which is necessary to produce the free software.
No. You should be paid for the programming, not the program.
The GPL says:
You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
This does not tell anything about the height of the fee.
According to German law, it you transfer a copy for a fee you _automatically_ provide warranty protection.
So you can in fact be paid for the program - i.e. for transferring a copy with (implicit or explicit) warranty protection.
Peter