On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 08:17:33AM -0800, Aaron Wolf wrote: > 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.
I think it does, https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#DigitalGoods > 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. Copies on phisical media may be goods; software should not.
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