Picking a license

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Fri May 14 23:55:14 EDT 2010


In article <a8356d56-b413-4967-9680-e1be58c25821 at k19g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
Paul Boddie  <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:
>On 14 Mai, 03:56, a... at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
>>
>> IMO this only makes sense if one agrees that people should not be allowed
>> to sell software for money.  Absent that agreement, your argument about
>> freedom seems rather limited.
>
>You'll have to explain this to me because I don't quite follow your
>assertion. You can sell copyleft-licensed software, although I accept
>that you can't set an arbitrarily high price on the sources for
>someone who has already acquired a binary distribution.

You can't really sell Open Source software in any practical way; someone
will always undercut you once it's out in the wild.  You can only sell
support for the software, which is entirely different.
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