Re: [emacs-tangents] [External] : Emacs website, Lisp, and other

[Drew Adams]

> License does not prohibit selling. Motivation we know.
> But it is sellable product, just as many other products.

Yes.  It's about the motivation - how and why a
product gets produced.  That you can sell something
doesn't mean it's developed _for_ sale/profit.

And it's not about whether it's _legal_ to sell
something.  You can sell anything, legal or not,
if you find a buyer for it.  (The buyer might not
legally own it as a result, but that's beside the
point.)

Selling something doesn't make it a commodity and
its creation commodity production: production for
exchange.

If the development of GNU Emacs were dependent on
its sale, then you might have an argument.  It's
not, and you don't.

Your own livelihood might (or might not) depend
on your sales of Emacs.  But that alone doesn't
affect the development of Emacs - its how and why,
its raison d'etre.