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Strange that the Conservancy is against selling exceptions when the FSF is okay with it.

> If you want to make money by selling software licenses, then by all means go ahead and do that, but don't pretend it's also FOSS.

But it is also FOSS. If something is available to everyone under a free license, the fact that you have the choice of another license too doesn't make it stop being free.




> But it is also FOSS.

In letter, but not in spirit, as explained by Kuhn in the post I linked to, which is the whole problem.




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