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Re:I'm not good enough to work on open source software by chronomex on Thursday March 22, 2012 @02:30PM (#3741226)
The very GNU GPL itself explicitly allows code licensed under it to be sold for money. What makes you think that code transferred for money cannot possibly be Free?
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Re:I'm not good enough to work on open source software by paulhauggis on Thursday March 22, 2012 @03:11PM (#3741412)
Everyone always says this, but the majority of the community is very much against you making money on it and will destroy any chances if you making any sort of profit by releasing the source for free (which is allowed under the license).
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Re:I'm not good enough to work on open source software by DanBC on Thursday March 22, 2012 @06:32PM (#3742386)
Most people can't compile software. Forking and releasing a compiled free version would be more likely to kill a project.

But then see also Pysol; a free open source program that was being sold by sneaky companies. The devs decided to stop releasing it.

(http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/41344-pysol-using-qt-c...)

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Re:I'm not good enough to work on open source software by JoeAltmaier on Thursday March 22, 2012 @02:42PM (#3741287)
Don't be silly. If you can't look at it without paying, it isn't open source.
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