Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> writes: > On 24/05/20 01:08, Carl Sorensen wrote: >> Actually, GNU allows charging for the software. From the Preamble to the >> GNU GPL: >> >> "When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not >> price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that >> you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and >> charge for them if you wish)" > > You have freedom to charge for the SERVICE of DISTRIBUTING the software > (which I said :-), not the freedom of charging for the software itself.
That is like saying I can charge for the service of distributing the contents of a book, not for the contents themselves. What is the "contents themselves" without a means of dissemination, a medium? > Yes, I know I'm being pedantic, but when you're dealing with the law > pedanticism matters :-) > > (GPL v2 contains some bugs, and some people actively exploit those bugs > as features ...) A license does not contain "bugs". Pedanticism does not mean using words with a different meaning than anybody else. It means using them more carefully according to their agreed-upon meaning. -- David Kastrup