On 8/5/16 5:02 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Miles Fidelman ([email protected]):
Seems to me that this is an open source business model, just not one
where all things are free.
Sorry, no.
This comes up quite a bit, and Engel Nyst gave back in 2013 the answer
I'd give, so here's his answer:
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss/2013-December/018777.html
There are those who disagree, myself included. (And what makes Engel
Nyst the last word on such matters?)
The OSD says:
"The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away
the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution
containing programs from several different sources. The license shall
not require a royalty or other fee for such sale."
There is a large gap between "selling or giving away the software" and
running the software. I'm not talking about any restrictions on
distributing the software.
And, I might note, that the OSD definition is somewhat more specific in
referring to "as a component of an aggregate software distribution
containing programs from several different sources."
Miles Fidelman
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
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