From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-01-12T19:01:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9191] Re: Licensing issues

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Robert Feldt wrote:

I generally don't reply to my own mails but I forgot one thing... ;-(

> "``Free software'' does not mean ``non-commercial''. A free program must
> be available for commercial use. Commercial development of free software
> is no longer unusual; such programs are free commercial software."
> 
> so I guess anything along the lines we discuss here can ever go as free
> software.
> 
One reason for this might be that commercial users will not be motivated
to continue develop such a SW product (free commercial software in the
gnu.org excerpt above) since someone else (Ruby Foundation and the
author) would benefit. Is this the reason?

/Robert