sda wrote: > RS has no problem with this at all, free > as in speech, not necessarily free as in beer. The heart of > GNU/Linux is still free as in beer, however the ease of use necessarily > isn't or shouldn't be IMHO. > But RMS's license states that once I buy, download, whatever some GPL'd code, I am now free to give away this software however I please. Mandrake could run people off of their ftp servers if they wish, but they can't keep the latest versions out of the hands of the non-payers, unless they start writing code from scratch. This code would have to be totally non-derived from anything GPL'd and this would allow an alternative license. This of course would be seen as most unfriendly....
The situation is a little more complicated than this, but this is it in a nutshell. -- Kevin O'Connor "People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun ... The GNU Manifesto - Copyright (C) 1985, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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