On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:37 PM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > Jeff Barnes <jbarnes...@yahoo.com> writes: >> Just curious. If there wasn't a free as in beer version of a GPL >> software package, wouldn't one logically expect a fork? How does GNU >> address that? > > You can't fork what has not been written yet.
I suppose the situation might be as follows: source code is freely available (on website, github or whatever), but the binaries are not. Anyone tech-savvy enough to serve himself doesn't have to pay, but "simple users" do have. I think that if the price was low (say, 5$) nobody might be interested in forking it. And actually, releasing source for free but binaries for fee makes some sense. After all, build process can be a hassle (Graham, for example, spends much of his time precisely to serve LilyPond binaries to everyone on the planet). cheers, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
