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Can anyone explain to me in layman terms, how this is legal? I mean charging money for freely available open source tools, not owned by this site?
by rhardih 8y ago
Can anyone explain to me in layman terms, how this is legal? I mean charging money for freely available open source tools, not owned by this site?
- jamestomasino 8y agoGPL, MIT, and BSD licenses like these allow for commercializaton and/or distribution charges. It's a nice feature of the licenses that allow for curation and distribution of nice packages, CDs, etc. That being said, I'm finding myself reactive viscerally to this site and what feels like an abuse of friendly licenses.
- FooBarWidget 8y agoFree software / open source allows charging money. This is even intentional. See also https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html In case of copyleft licenses, the only thing not allowed is preventing your buyers from exercising the same freedom you had. That is, they are allowed to redistribute without cost, and they too are allowed to sell.