| 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 whaqtever 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 exchanges 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. |