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> It's like people don't understand the meaning of free software licenses. It's like people don't understand there is many different "free software licenses" a
by camus2 9y ago
> It's like people don't understand the meaning of free software licenses.
It's like people don't understand there is many different "free software licenses" as well.
> A business can build a billion dollar company from gedit and not give the original author anything.
A billion dollar company which sells GPL software will have to provide the entire source and its modifications to their clients and make it available as GPL so that the client can exploit it commercially without giving a single cent to that billion dollar company.
- ivanbakel 9y agoTrue, but if your customers don't choose to do that, your business model stays intact, which is clearly what's happening here. Moreover, if you understand that this isn't a violation of the license, what were you saying in your original comment?
- merb 9y ago> so that the client can exploit it commercially without giving a single cent to that billion dollar company. of course since most clients, know how to support and especially compile the source code (p.s. this barley happens)