Janek Warchoł <janek.lilyp...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
Personally, I do not like this "milk the less computer-savvy people" approach. Ardour does some things that way IIRC. I have done quite a bit of GPLed contract work (and it was me who spelled out the release under GPL and who was responsible for release into the public): people pay to get a particular job done. And not every job consists of licensing software: some people actually need to _use_ it. If nobody does the job, it does not get done, simple as that. And if it gets released under the GPL, they have a chance of finding other contractors and/or having some community maintenance happen for free. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
