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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by BlueTemplar on Monday November 09, 2020 @10:51AM (#25035980)
Wait, doesn't GPL also specifically allows reselling ?

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html

(And GNU even encourages it.)

See also about selling exceptions to GPL, like Qt does :

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling-exceptions.html

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Re:No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This by josephcsible on Monday November 09, 2020 @11:34AM (#25036504)
It allows reselling, yes, but since anyone who buys it could give it away to everyone else for free, it doesn't really happen much.
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