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Misleading information...

Quote "If you modify the software and redistribute it in binary form, you have to also release the source code for your changes. This prevents the software from being incorporated into a commercial product"

You mean like Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Selling free software is allowed, it's explicitely stated in the GNU GPL section 4.

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