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Re:Ask HN: "Free if you know how to compile it" open source ... by dyingkneepad on Friday September 24, 2021 @06:49PM (#28648648)
What in GPL or MIT is preventing you from selling the binaries? I mean, you'd have to ship the source code along with the binaries in the GPL case, but it doesn't prevent you from charging for it.
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Re:Ask HN: "Free if you know how to compile it" open source ... by bruce511 on Saturday September 25, 2021 @01:33AM (#28650769)
As I understand the GPL you only need to provide source to users. So you can sell it for $ and only then provide the source.

Of course that person could then post the source for anyone, and if you trusted that one-removed source you can get it from there.

(incidentally most paying users would not post the source because of loss aversion.)

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