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authorChristian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org>2022-09-24 17:04:26 +0200
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<title>Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/selling-exceptions" />
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<h2>Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL</h2>
-<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/">Richard Stallman</a></p>
+<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/">Richard
+Stallman</a></address>
<p>Selling exceptions means that the copyright holder of the code
releases it to the general public under a valid free software license,
@@ -116,7 +124,7 @@ those things: we release under the GPL only.</p>
<p>Another reason we release only under the GPL is so as not to permit
proprietary extensions that would present practical advantages over
our free programs. Users for whom freedom is not a value might choose
-those non-free versions rather than the free programs they are based
+those nonfree versions rather than the free programs they are based
on&mdash;and lose their freedom. We don't want to encourage that.</p>
<p>There are occasional cases where, for specific reasons of
@@ -135,10 +143,11 @@ everyone.</p>
consider selling exceptions an acceptable thing for a company to do,
and I will suggest it where appropriate as a way to get programs
freed.</p>
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<p>Please send general FSF &amp; GNU inquiries to <a
@@ -156,16 +165,33 @@ href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org">&lt;webmasters@gnu.org&gt;</a>.</p>
to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org">
&lt;web-translators@gnu.org&gt;</a>.</p>
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Please see the <a
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-information on coordinating and submitting translations of this article.</p>
+information on coordinating and contributing translations of this article.</p>
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-<p>Copyright &copy; 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Richard Stallman</p>
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+<p>Copyright &copy; 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021 Richard Stallman</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative
@@ -175,7 +201,7 @@ Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
<p class="unprintable">Updated:
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-$Date: 2019/12/30 11:28:30 $
+$Date: 2021/10/01 17:02:54 $
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</p>
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