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

[Ineiev]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 08:17:33AM -0800, Aaron Wolf wrote:
> 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.

I think it does,

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#DigitalGoods

> 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.

Copies on phisical media may be goods; software should not.

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