[SkiFire13]

> And arguable, open source couldn't exist without it.

Couldn't you just include selling a product or a licence for it as a requirement?

[eru]

The GPL is a license.

[NekkoDroid]

selling a product or license

Generally most GPL'd software isn't sold (terms and conditions may apply).

[eru]

IBM used to sell you the computer, and the software was free. The industry could resurrect that practice as a loophole.

[NekkoDroid]

If you sell the computer with the software preinstalled it would still fall under the selling a product part. So if you'd want to actually have a loophole you'd at best be selling the product without any software, and we both know how well that would go with the masses.

[eru]

> [...] and we both know how well that would go with the masses.

Pretty well, actually, as long as you can download the software for free.