On Tuesday 28. February 2017 10.11.04 Agner Fog wrote: > On 27-02-2017 15:44, Paul Boddie wrote: > > What would be interesting to see is an organisation that can invoice > > people for spending money on Free Software which remains Free Software. > > Yes, exactly. An organization to sell license exceptions to GPL software.
No, that is not what I meant. Maybe that is what you would be interested in, but what I would be interested in is an organisation that allows people to acquire Free Software under the normal licensing terms - no exceptions or alternative licences - in a way that satisfies their organisation's bureaucratic requirements of having a nominated supplier and for there to be a transaction they can record. Once upon a time, the FSF sold tapes with all the GNU software on them, and I guess there were also paper manuals you could buy. Such things were apparently one way of satisfying such bureaucratic requirements where donations would otherwise be made. What I would be interested in are ways of achieving this in a world where no physical artefacts need to be exchanged. Paul _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
