&gt; Look the GPL is a hard choice. It is very unfriendly to a developer who is looking to make a living on their code, since it makes selling that code as an artifact.<p>It seems like you accidentally a word somewhere in here, but <i>know</i> that you can charge <i>ANY</i> price you want for compiled software distributed under the terms of the GPL. Your only requirement is to -upon request from one to whom you have distributed your software- provide the source code for your software to that person.<p>Fulfilling the request with patches against other code is acceptable. Requiring a snail-mailed request is acceptable. Charging your <i>actual</i> direct costs for fulfilling the request is acceptable.<p>Selling GPL&#x27;d software <i>isn&#x27;t</i> more complicated than selling non-GPL&#x27;d software.<p>See also: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;selling.en.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;selling.en.html</a>