Conveying Verbatim Copies GPLv3 section 4

Section 4 GPLv3 discribes, what Kind of Terms apply on verbatim copies and gives you the right, to charge a fee for warranty and support.

In the following way:

4. Conveying Verbatim Copies.

You may convey verbatim copies of the Program’s source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice; keep intact all notices stating that this License and any non-permissive terms added in accord with section 7 apply to the code; keep intact all notices of the absence of any warranty; and give all recipients a copy of this License along with the Program.

You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey, and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee.

(Copyright holder of the license agreement itself  is the Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/>  Everyone is permitted by the copyright holder, to copy and distribute verbatim copies of the copyright  license document. Changing the copyright-agreement, is not allowed. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html.)

More about GPLv3.


Text is modified and available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.

Felix Arndt “The GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL or simply GFDL)” 2015; https://mrimagma.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/the-gnu-free-documentation-license-gnu-fdl-or-simply-gfdl/

To share-alike and attribute please use the 2 preceding sentences. Feel free to copy & paste.


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