> You're kidding, right?
Um, no I'm not kidding. You should read any one of the free licenses on this list: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SoftwareLicenses For any given one of them, whoever is distributing it is allowed to charge a fee, and then the recipient may distribute at their own will or for a fee of their own. That is in the definition of free software. If you don't like the FSF, try the OSI: https://opensource.org/licenses/category Or Copyfree: http://copyfree.org/standard/licenses This is what "free software" (as a technical term) has meant for decades. Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II Supporting Member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (#2296972) Associate Member, Free Software Foundation (#12889) www.mcmackins.org www.delwink.com www.eff.org www.gnu.org www.fsf.org On 08/24/2018 01:39 AM, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 8/23/2018 11:42 AM, David McMackins wrote: >>> And that means you still have to pay >>> $59 to get the source code for the compiler, which I think, regardless >>> of license, doesn't really qualify as ' more "free" than >>> OpenWatcom'... >> >> Not really. If it's under a free (as in freedom) license, then only >> one person (or many pooling together) needs to put up the cash to get >> one copy, then they can give it away. > You're kidding, right? > > Ralf > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
