On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Kagamin <span dir="ltr">&lt;spam@here.lot&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">Chante Wrote:<br>
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&gt; &gt; there&#39;s no mercantile reason to restrict use of a patented technology<br>
&gt; &gt; in a GPL3 software.<br>
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&gt; Explain that statement please. Do you wish to retract it?<br>
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</div>GPL software cannot be sold for profit, so even if the author would be charged a fee 1% per sold copy the patent holder will get 0 anyway.<br>
</blockquote></div><br><div>Where&#39;d you get that silly notion?  It&#39;s libre, not gratis.</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney</a></div>