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mrobyesterday at 10:26 PM1 replyview on HN

"Free as in speech, not free as in beer."

I'm not reading an AI slop article, but there's nothing in either the Free Software Definition or the Open Source Definition restricting the selling of software. It does prevent you from restricting people from sharing that software once they've bought it, but you could always use a threshold pledge system to ensure you get enough money before releasing anything:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_pledge_system


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cocodillyesterday at 10:39 PM

> "Free as in speech, not free as in beer."

As I understand it, if you have the first, the second follows from it. So it's effectively the same.

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