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Συντάκτης: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
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Προς: dng
Αντικείμενο: Re: [DNG] I have a question about libsystemd0 in devuan ascii,
On 28.06.2017 01:24, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult (enrico.weigelt@???):
>
>> wait a second - these grsecurity folks are *selling* kernel patches ?
>> how is that compatible w/ the gpl ?
>
> Please explain to me why I may not offer to sell a codebase subject to
> GPLv[23] licence terms.


By selling, I mean, you'll first have to pay before you get the code.
But anybody republish it at will (as long as complying to GPL), so
how can that business model work ?

> Please note that FSF itself has been selling collections of GNU software
> for well over 30 years.


Software *collections*, Distro. So, you're paying for the transport
medium and the collection as a whole, not the individual packages.
Anybody can pick out individual source trees from commercial distros
and redistribute them at will. You just can't do that with the
distribution media 1:1.


--mtx