[Nix-dev] Packaging free software that costs money

[Profpatsch]

On 16-07-07 01:18am, Renato Alves wrote:
> To be honest I'm not even sure there's an issue here. I've never heard
> of something called "free open-source that costs money". The first part
> negates the second.

That is incorrect. See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

> Ardour was mentioned but I can't find a single reference to a "required
> donation" on their website: https://ardour.org . The wiki is the first
> page with any $ on it. There they mention a subscription model and
> promise "unlimited updates". To me this only makes sense if you are
> using the binary releases not if building from source.

https://ardour.org/download.html
“Buy”, “Subscribe”, ”Free Demo” are quite clear in my opinion. 
See also the first FAQ directy under the table.

If you want another example:
http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/download.php

> So in short, as long as the code is truly free and open-source, whatever
> monetization system is used by the project (donationware, niceware,
> binaryware ...), it's the developers responsibility to figure out how
> they ask their users for money.

This toxic idea is the reason free software is where it is today.
But I digress.

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