[Nix-dev] Packaging free software that costs money

[Profpatsch]

On 16-07-06 09:50am, Kevin Cox wrote:
> On 06/07/16 09:25, Bjørn Forsman wrote:
> > On 6 July 2016 at 14:19, Profpatsch <mail at profpatsch.de> wrote:
> IIUC you can't "really require" money for a GPL program. You can charge
> for the distribution or for binaries or whatever you like, but nothing
> is stopping others from building and distributing the program for no
> charge (or even taking the money themselves) this is part of the freedom
> offered by the license.

I’m not sure how that fares legally (compared to proprietary licenses),
but in a day-to-day environment, this holds true for *every* digital file.

It is a basic property.

If you don’t think so, I point you to $FILE_SHARING_WEBSITE of your choice.

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