Brian Behlendorf writes: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Russell Nelson wrote: > > Brian Behlendorf writes: > > > It's not flame bait. Show me an open source license that specifies that > > > each user pay the copyright holder for use. > > > > You could have a license which specifies that each user have to pay > > the copyright holder when they get the software from the copyright > > holder. It would have to allow others to redistribute it without fee, > > but the license itself *could* require payment upon recipt from the > > copyright holder. Some people would be perfectly willing to pay. > > That doesn't meet the requirement above. You're saying I could charge for > the act of allowing a download to someone. Very different than what I > suggest above.
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