<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 1:06 PM Will Godfrey <<a href="mailto:willgodfrey@musically.me.uk">willgodfrey@musically.me.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><br>
The whole of Yoshimi is GPL V2 (or later) So payment isn't really an option -<br>
not that I'd want to make it commercial anyway. Also there are the issues of<br>
time, experience and hardware availability - pick any one :(<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Nothing about the GPLv2 or any other version of the GPL prevents anyone from selling software that uses it as a license.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">The only implication of the GPL is that, according to conventional economics, the "natural price point" is zero, since in theory anybody can sell it for less than you, and anybody else can sell it for less than them, and so on, all the way down to zero. And yet ... it doesn't work like that.</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">The bigger problem with the GPL isn't that it isn't (or wasn't)clear)that it can ever be compatible with Apple's app store terms. <br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/6109/is-it-possible-to-have-gpl-software-in-the-mac-app-store">https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/6109/is-it-possible-to-have-gpl-software-in-the-mac-app-store</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">But there is absolutely no problem getting paid for GPL (v2 or whatever) software.<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"></div></div></div></div></div>