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by yjftsjthsd-h 1007 days ago
Small nitpick: AIUI it is possible to sell binaries of a GPLv2 program, provided you keep providing source for free. (I think; IANAL, there's maybe some caveat about exactly when you have to give source and to who.) That can actually work if your users don't want to compile stuff themselves.
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mnau 1007 days ago
In theory. Show me one example (not service or support, but selling actual software). You have a better chance of winning a lottery, happens every day.

In theory, I can just walk through solid wall, using a quantum tunneling effect.

The closes thing you will find are things like blender release under GPL (i.e. pay me a money to release my commercial software under GPL, but that's not selling GPL software),

This whole line of thinking is disingenuous.

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maccard 1007 days ago
Simple mobile tools shows its definitely possible [0]. Simple gallery pro has 110k reviews, for example.

>You have a better chance of winning a lottery, happens every day.

Agreed here, though.

[0] https://www.simplemobiletools.com/

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