Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What do you think about the FSF using/endorsing nonfree cultural works?

[Aaron Wolf]

On 02/17/2016 11:23 PM, Ineiev wrote:

> Trademarks only work when registered per-country; more important,
> they imply a product to be sold. the GNU GPL is not sold
> in any reasonable sense; in fact, the GNU project denies that
> (free) software should be treated like a product.
> 

I wish that were more explicitly true because "product" in the market
generally refers to private goods (or to exclusive "club goods") and
free software is a public good (non-exclusive, non-rivalrous). However,
GNU definitely does *not* deny the idea of treating free software like a
product. It explicitly says that selling copies of GNU software is fine
and that used to happen commonly when getting copies meant sending
someone a physical disk.

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