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https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
by pearjuice 13y ago
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
- taspeotis 13y agoYeah some not-so-diligent person added some "free" code to our commercial, closed-source application. "Free" as in GPL2. Ripped that out pretty quickly.
- rahimnathwani 13y agoDid you 'rip it out' in the sense of rolling back the commit, or did you refactor the code (and replace the GPL2 code with code that did the same/similar thing)? If it were the latter, would your entire codebase be considered a derivative work (just as if I took some GPL2 code and refactored it until all the original code was gone)?
- Trufa 13y agoFor some reason, I had never read the GNU definition of free software. Very interesting thanks! One question though, did I understand it correctly or have a got it wrong: I can make a free software (free as in speech), and charge you X amount of money for it, but it is within your right to sell it to the next person as long as you keep the freedom to modify etc?