“Gervase Markham, the Mozilla Foundation’s licensing officer, in
an article in the Times Online, talks about being questioned by a
northern UK Trading License Officer about giving away software.“The trading officer was concerned by a group that was burning
the free Mozilla Browser on CDs and selling it. She was expecting
Gervase to object to their scheme; but he didn’t and ‘wrote back,
politely explaining the principles of copyleft–that the software
was free, both as in speech and as in price, and that people
copying and redistributing it was a feature, not a bug. I said that
selling verbatim copies of Firefox on physical media was absolutely
fine with us…'”
Free Software Magazine: What About Selling Free Software
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