Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/10/28/13:21:36
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 15:39:53 +0100 (MET)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, bartosz wrote:
>[snip]
>
>What about GNU, GPL, LGPL .... licenses if you want to sell your
>software.
You can always charge for shipping and handling ;-)) But seriously, FSF also
SELLS their products (like TeX on tapes and other software). It's OK as long
as you provide access to the software on the net for FREE. And if there's
someone who want's to pay... why not?
Data General pays FSF sponsorships for porting and support for GCC which is the
native compiler on DG/UX, others as well.
Why not ask for corporate sponsors/purchasers for DJGPP? From our point of
view, it helps the community by making the compiler more popular and more
stable (not that DJGPP has been anything but a rock to-date). From the point
of view of a "buyer", if enough commercial concerns commit to the product by
buying sponsorships, with DJ committing to using the funds to hire support
staff, they know that there will be someone whose "job" it is to support the
compiler in addition to the those who donate their time. By using the concept
of sponsorships we can maintain the concept that DJGPP is free for all, not
create separate classes of users (freeloaders and paying customers), and gain
financial support and a body of commercial software written using DJGPP. Plus
DJ can build this into a business both proving that free software works and
reaping the rewards that all of this hard work deserve.
I like it. Anyone else? DJ?
--
Art S. Kagel, kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com
A proverb is no proverb to you 'till life has illustrated it. -- John Keats
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