On 02/17/2016 11:23 PM, Ineiev wrote: > Trademarks only work when registered per-country; more important, > they imply a product to be sold. the GNU GPL is not sold > in any reasonable sense; in fact, the GNU project denies that > (free) software should be treated like a product. >
I wish that were more explicitly true because "product" in the market generally refers to private goods (or to exclusive "club goods") and free software is a public good (non-exclusive, non-rivalrous). However, GNU definitely does *not* deny the idea of treating free software like a product. It explicitly says that selling copies of GNU software is fine and that used to happen commonly when getting copies meant sending someone a physical disk.
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