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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What do you think about the FSF using/endorsin
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Aaron Wolf |
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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What do you think about the FSF using/endorsing nonfree cultural works? |
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Thu, 18 Feb 2016 08:17:33 -0800 |
On 02/17/2016 11:23 PM, Ineiev wrote:
> Trademarks only work when registered per-country; more important,
> they imply a product to be sold. the GNU GPL is not sold
> in any reasonable sense; in fact, the GNU project denies that
> (free) software should be treated like a product.
>
I wish that were more explicitly true because "product" in the market
generally refers to private goods (or to exclusive "club goods") and
free software is a public good (non-exclusive, non-rivalrous). However,
GNU definitely does *not* deny the idea of treating free software like a
product. It explicitly says that selling copies of GNU software is fine
and that used to happen commonly when getting copies meant sending
someone a physical disk.
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- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What do you think about the FSF using/endorsing nonfree cultural works?, (continued)
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What do you think about the FSF using/endorsing nonfree cultural works?, Blaise Alleyne, 2016/02/12
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What do you think about the FSF using/endorsing nonfree cultural works?, Tobias Platen, 2016/02/12
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What do you think about the FSF using/endorsing nonfree cultural works?, Aaron Wolf, 2016/02/12
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What do you think about the FSF using/endorsing nonfree cultural works?, Tobias Platen, 2016/02/12
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What do you think about the FSF using/endorsing nonfree cultural works?, Blaise Alleyne, 2016/02/12
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What do you think about the FSF using/endorsing nonfree cultural works?, Matt Lee, 2016/02/12
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What do you think about the FSF using/endorsing nonfree cultural works?, Sam Pablo Kuper, 2016/02/12
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What do you think about the FSF using/endorsing nonfree cultural works?, Ineiev, 2016/02/18
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What do you think about the FSF using/endorsing nonfree cultural works?,
Aaron Wolf <=
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What do you think about the FSF using/endorsing nonfree cultural works?, Ineiev, 2016/02/18
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What do you think about the FSF using/endorsing nonfree cultural works?, Aaron Wolf, 2016/02/18
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Trademarking the GPL [was: What do you think about...], Ineiev, 2016/02/19
Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What do you think about the FSF using/endorsing nonfree cultural works?, Blaise Alleyne, 2016/02/12
Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What do you think about the FSF using/endorsing nonfree cultural works?, Alexander Berntsen, 2016/02/11