On 26 Oct 2012 17:50, "Andy Pintar" <a...@hapoteh.net> wrote:
<snip> Hi all, I started with ubuntu and shall be forever grateful that it gave me a way into to linux. The direction it has taken has long since diverged from mine, but I continued to recommend it to those looking for a point of entry. With the dash thing, no more. Not vitriol, just discomfort and distaste motivating me to employ the freedom of choice provided by the existence of lots of different FLOSS projects. > Actually, it makes me wonder what kind of legal implications there are with Canonical profiting off of the distribution of GPL'd code. Can their deferred revenue stream be implied as a sale in a legal context? At what point will their revenue constitute profit and violate the terms of the GPL? IANAL & TISNLA: so far as I can tell, there is nothing in the GPL to prevent proffit. The GPL does discourage it insofar as its economic consequence include that it tends to drive prices to 0, but there's nothing in it to suggest attempts to proffit are bad or to be discouraged, let alone ruled out. Best, Brian vdB
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