Indeed I'm worried about the distribution. In fact I don't really care if anyone tries to make a profit out of my product. I do care if the eventual customer does not understand things like the GPL, buys the product for maybe $400 from a supplier, and never hears about the free availability of the product.

It's a new thing, and it will take time before the (small) market for this hears about it, and about its costs. Before that a lot of possible suppliers may have had the opportunity to sell it for a lot of money, which is -under the terms of the GPL- legal business.

We -as perlmonks- know about free software, and that free is not the same as bad (in fact, more often the opposite), but the large crowd out there still doesn't know about it.

Jouke Visser, Perl 'Adept'

In reply to Re: (kudra: Distribution a problem too?) Re(2): Licensing your software by Jouke
in thread Licensing your software by Jouke

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