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Originally Posted by film_girl  While you can absolutely charge for a GPL product, you are also supposed to make the source freely available to anyone who wants it. |
The second part of this is incorrect and a common misconception. The source code does NOT have to be available to EVERYONE. The GPL restricts that you (the distributor) can't provide only a compiled or binary form. Meaning the source code needs to be available with other formats in which the source code can't be seen, so the receiver of the GPL product is free to modify the source code.
So if I sell some software to Jeffro and it is under GPL, then no one besides Jeffro has rights to have the source code. But he is free to modify and distribute the software and code as he likes, as long as the GPL stays in tract and the authors are credited.
I'd like to note:
Public Availability:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq....bilityToPublic
Author Credit:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IWantCredit