Michael Schultheiss on 26 Oct 2007 20:32:58 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Free Software


Art Alexion wrote:
> On Thursday 25 October 2007 11:12:17 Sean C. Sheridan wrote:
> > Many people may not understand that you may charge for your software and
> > still have it fall under the category of "free software"
> 
> I'm not sure I understand how that coexists with "The freedom to redistribute 
> copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2)."
> 
> While a scenario may exist where entity A sells program-which-is-open-source, 
> but allows others to distribute it for free (or for a charge), that doesn't 
> seem like a real world scenario.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is sold by Red Hat.  The majority of the code
is under Free Software licenses, thus CentOS is able to distribute a
free work-alike based on the RHEL sources.
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