I don't understand the question. You charge the customer, the form can be freelancer, co-op, partnership, corp, whatever, it's orthogonal.
> If it was the case nobody would be writing open source code to begin with.
FWIW, this is what RMS does and recommends others to do.
> Do you think students writing and maintaining open source libraries are being compensated by their university or something?
Some are, some aren't. What's your point?
I don't understand the question. You charge the customer, the form can be freelancer, co-op, partnership, corp, whatever, it's orthogonal.
> If it was the case nobody would be writing open source code to begin with.
FWIW, this is what RMS does and recommends others to do.
> Do you think students writing and maintaining open source libraries are being compensated by their university or something?
Some are, some aren't. What's your point?