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isolate on Dec 20, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ulix – a Literate Unix

Nobody really sells GPL software, they sell support for it or they sell it together with hardware. I mean, the GPL is perfectly reasonable from a commercial perspective if you're going to charge a one-time fee to release your software and dispense with royalties, but nobody really does that.

pdkl95 on Dec 20, 2015 [–]

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technolo...

http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/berkeley-db/db/ov...

Oracle doesn't count?

isolate on Dec 20, 2015 | [–]

I wasn't counting dual-licensing, because what you're buying isn't a copy of the software but the permission to ignore the GPL, but fair enough.

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