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2) Sorry, but how have they broken the license? We seem to have missed a step in the conversation.
3) And on the thread topic, I don't even think they are clearly lying. They might just be mis-speaking.
2) reselling most open-source code is theft under the licenses in common use.
3) maybe, but on this forum of rather clever people, I assume people mean what they say.
That doesn't sound like any OSS license in common use; and one of the freedoms that FOSS licenses preserve is the freedom to sell software. Which license do you think they're in violation of?
> maybe, but on this forum of rather clever people, I assume people mean what they say.
That is a bad assumption. People often mis-speak and there is nothing that protects against that. When people make a claim that isn't true, it is prudent to seek clarification in the first instance to prevent misunderstandings. Particularly when dealing with cross-cultural institutions where the management presumably speak Chinese.
Free-as-in-libre is different from free-as-in-beer.
However, I do agree when the majority of FOSS consumers speak of it the F stands for free-as-in-beer, not free-as-in-libre, and tar and feather anyone who would dare pay or take money.
It's called copyright infringement. A completely non-violent act, violation of a contract essentially, one that subtracts nothing from either party. It's disgusting to see you put this and rape in the same sentence as if these things were in any way analogous.
The comparison stems for abusing something people presume to be open, which I think is apt. The social attitudes do not reflect reality.
I'm not even willing to engage in the rest of your argument as part of this thread. I don't care if you're using lower case, upper case or writing in Sanskrit.