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"Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU Project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as li
by kristianpaul 3y ago
"Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU Project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as little as possible—just enough to cover the cost. This is a misunderstanding.
Actually, we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can. If a license does not permit users to make copies and sell them, it is a nonfree license. If this seems surprising to you, please read on."
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
- BirAdam 3y agoI believe that it would stand to reason that if IBM/RH is not permitting redistribution of sources made available in their customer portal, this would constitute a violation of the GPL for any GPL package. I would assume that IBM/RH will then need to take the Apple approach and quickly start working to replace GCC with LLVM and next rid itself of all GPL software and stick with MIT/BSD/OSC...