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		audionerd on June 24, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Help convince Media Browser's author to charge for... this is probably a dumb question, but re: charging for the binaries of a program licensed under GPL -- are there any examples of a person/company doing this successfully?

yhnbhjiuok on June 24, 2009 | [–]

I don't know bout sucessfully - haven't seen the accounts - but there are a lot of examples from SUSE/IBM down to builds of SSL libraries

alexkay on June 24, 2009 | [–]

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/differences/ (Wine is LGPL)

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