| codescience | just stumbled across another question. is there an open-source license that prevent anyone from making money off my code? |
| rindolf | codescience: no there isn’t. |
| rindolf | codescience: it stands against the open source definition. |
| ssta | codescience: that would violate the spirit of what most people understand "open source" to mean |
| rindolf | codescience: people can sell copies of open source software or services related to it. |
| codescience | hmmm, i understand |
| rindolf | codescience: see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html |
| ssta | I can legally sell you this copy of the Linux kernel...I can charge whatever you are willing to pay. Nothing in the license prevents this |
| rindolf | ssta: will you sell it to me for 5,000 USD? |
| rindolf | ;-) |
| ssta | rindolf: sure |
| rindolf | ssta: how about for 3,000 USD? |
| ssta | rindolf: tell you what, for $10,000 I’ll throw in a free copy of FreeBSD |
| rindolf | ssta: wow, sounds like a good deal. |
| ssta | rindolf: hmm, 3000 is a bit low, I don’t think I could go that cheap |
| rindolf | ssta: heh. |
| rindolf | ssta: how much are you selling the source code of Apache 2.4 for? |
| ssta | rindolf: oh, you can have that for free |
| rindolf | ssta: really? |
| rindolf | Sucker! |
| ssta | rindolf: sure...but the build scripts you have to pay for |
| rindolf | ssta: OK. |
| rindolf | ssta: would you be willing to exchange the source of the Linux kernel for three copies of jQuery? I will even throw in a few free Dojo plugins. |
| rindolf | ssta: he already told us. |
| ssta | rindolf: hmm, not sure I want jQuery |
| ssta | rindolf: would you happen to have code for a halfway decent RDBMS? I think I could swap for that |
| rindolf | ssta: I have the source code for MySQL. Not sure if it’s half-decent. |
| codescience | i run a mysql server. runs good enough for me |
| ssta | rindolf: I use MySQL in production quite a lot. It has its flaws, but my use cases never seem to hit them |
| rindolf | ssta: OK. |
| rindolf | ssta: so will you exchange its source code for the Linux kernel? |
| ssta | rindolf: sure |
| rindolf | ssta: sounds good. |
| rindolf | ssta: you can find the source code of MySQL here - http://www.mysql.com/ |
| ssta | rindolf: you can get the Linux source from kernel.org |
| rindolf | ssta: thanks. |