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K. Ari Krupnikov writes:
> > (Remember, non-commercial use is not in question
> > here, so Free software developers are immune to problems here.)
>
> "Free software" and "commercial software" are completely orthogonal
> categories. Most software, Free, open source or proprietary, is
> written with profit in mind. Red Hat sell commercial Free
> software. "Free" refers to what customers are free to do with it, not
> how much they pay. See [1] for an in-depth explanation and
> examples.
This is the classic free-as-in-beer vs. free-as-in-speech dichotomy.
To give a second example, in FlightGear (GPL/LGPL) we are able to
import freeware 3D aircraft models designed for Microsoft Flight
Simulator, but most of the time they are useless to us because they
are restricted to non-commerical use only.
All the best,
David
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