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Re:Richard Stallman Explains [video] by ForHackernews on Thursday August 10, 2017 @04:48AM (#14977742)
There is nothing in the GPL that prohibits charging money for your software. You just have to provide the source code and allow users to make modifications & redistribute.
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Re:Richard Stallman Explains [video] by legulere on Thursday August 10, 2017 @11:48AM (#14980858)
GPL mandates that anyone that gets hands on your software can give it away for free, effectively making it impossible to sell it
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Re:Richard Stallman Explains [video] by ForHackernews on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @01:41PM (#15020470)
The existence of bittorrent means that anyone that gets their hands on your software can give it away for free, effectively making it impossible to sell it.
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