On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:42:53PM +0200, Lars Nood??n wrote: > chefren wrote: > > If a programmer has a bright idea he should be able to choose to give it > > away or make money with it, which gives her/him even more freedoms. > > Despite the rhetoric from Redmond-followers, making money from software > is something that both the GPL and BSD licenses allow. There have been > many, and the number is increasing, companies that make good money using > either license. Early on, FSF was apparently even partially funded by > sales of Emacs tapes. However, the start of the thread is not directly > about the licenses. > > When the BSDTalk interview was posted, it was brought up that the ports, > which are not part of the base system, include non-free (by everyone's > measure) packages. You can find usability studies and findings of fact > in court, among other things, which point that bundling implies > endorsement.
They are free by your account. You see you don't have to pay for them therefore free. I can play this game too.