On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:07:12 +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If you buy it you can do what do you want (WTFPL license) with it, so >>> you can distribute if you want. But I imagine buying software to >>> distribute it is not the Debian Philosophy, so they/we don't that >> >> But what's the gain of that requirement? > The autor is winning money and before he didn't win what he want to win, > so he changed his strategy. That is his gain, I think Yes, and I think that a "pay per software" strategy is a valid requirement... but not this way. >> You download from whatever place (packaged from distributions or direct >> download from developers website) and then you pay for it (payment >> required, not optional) as many other FLOSS software do but limiting >> its distribution is IMO, senseless (because as you said, only one guy >> can pay for it and then freely redistribute anywhere...). > > Surely there are many people which will pay for that and then they won't > want to distribute something that they payed ... > > Other people, of course, will distribute it .. (and people which get > these copies won't pay) So, if his main goal is to get money (which I can understand), with the new strategy he can just sell one copy and earn 30€ for it, do you think that's a good business plan? :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.06.21.17.19...@gmail.com