On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 05:50:48PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Daniel Abrecht via Dng said on Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:17:14 +0200
>
> >Am 2025-09-02 14:35, schrieb Kevin Chadwick via Dng:
> >> My point of view is that we want open source contributors to be good
> >> actors and the GPL does not help with that and just erects walls to
> >> good actors that need to make a living primarily and contribute
> >> because they want to.
> >
> >The GPL doesn't erect any walls at all.
>
> Once I GPL my code, I can't sell it because everybody who downloads it
> is my competitor, and they didn't need to take months getting the code
> right. I think this is the wall to which Kevin refers.

You need only to provide download for the people you sold code to.
And why would they give away for free something, which they paid for?

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