On 4/25/17 9:03 PM, Adam Borowski wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 08:27:16PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>> Free Software means just that: You don't have to pay anything to use it.
>> There's all kinds of stuff out there where object code is free to download
>> and use, but source is not available. (And there are degrees of Free - such
>> as "free for non-commercial use only."
> Uhm, you've somehow failed to notice all the talk about "free as in speech"
> vs "free as in beer". In this case, it is strictly the former. The GPL
> explicitly allows charging a fee, the DFSG forbid any restrictions on
> commercial activity, including _selling_ the software. You just can't stop
> your recipient from distributing it further.
>
> "Free for non-commercial use only" is not free, it's at most gratis.

And here I thought we were talking about licenses, and the range of
terms included in different ones. The GPL is far from the only license
applied to software.

Miles Fidelman

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