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This "charge for commercial use" model was tried -- shareware -- and was an economic failure. It's advocated against by most organizations, like FSF and Creativ

This "charge for commercial use" model was tried -- shareware -- and was an economic failure. It's advocated against by most organizations, like FSF and Creative Commons. At most you see a "this is GPL but I wrote it so I'll give you a license to not follow the GPL for my code". Which is a quite different thing.

teddyh 8y ago
> At most you see a "this is GPL but I wrote it so I'll give you a license to not follow the GPL for my code". Which is a quite different thing. The usual name for that is “Selling Exceptions”: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling-exceptions.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling-exceptions.en.html