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> You can ask to be paid to make the soup and then let others take it for free.

But you cannot cry and moan if you give away the soup for free to someone and then find that they are reselling that to someone else for money. Or to make it more apt, I can ask a Softbank for money to build an unlimited soup dispenser and then let others take soup from it for free. But I cannot stop the people that took the free soup I offered to give away/sell it to others

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"But you cannot cry and moan if you give away the soup for free to someone and then find that they are reselling that to someone else for money."

Actually I think charities get really pissed off when you try do this? Isn't this why the individual packets of stuff often say 'not for resale' or whatever?

If you buy food products in bulk, the main bulk container contains legally required disclosures, disclaimers, ingredients etc. Individual packets within said bulk container lack such notices.

Compare a box a granola bars from Costco vs the same bar from a grocery store.

You mean like licensing terms?

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