The GNU public license says you can redistribute copies of software "for a fee" does this mean that people can

Question

...charge money for software (with source) that they didn't create?

Answer 1

Yes, you can sell GPL-licensed software you did not create or pay to obtain. There are no conditions on how you may do this or the price you may charge, contrary to the previous answer's assertions.

You cannot, however, claim a GPL licensed work to be of your creation. You must keep the GPL license statements in all distributions.

If you distribute a derivative work, you must retain the original work's GPL statements and you must distribute the original code with your derivative work.

Answer 2

Yes, there are 2 scenarios that this could've been:

1. sell for a minimal price, that happens to be the cost of the media, be it a floppy, CD, DVD In other words, cost of the hardware that makes the redistribution possible.

2. sell for a profit, either a reasonable markup percentage or charging wildly; but the GNU notice must stay and inform the victim/customer that your action is financially ripping them off for a software that is supposedly free in both ready-use binary.form and source code form.