Many people mistakenly think that the spirit of the GNU project does not charge any issuance software, or only a little cost price. However, in fact, we encourage everyone to issue free software and collect high prices, and more better. If you feel surprised if you look at the official, please continue to read. "Free" This word basically has two meaning: First, "freedom", the second is "free". In the word "free software", "Free" refers to "Free" instead of "free" ("free", "free", rather than "free beer"). This freedom allows users to use, modify, and the release of the original or revised software. Free software is sometimes free, sometimes users have to pay a little amount (usually the cost price) to get. In general, the same software may have different ways of distribution in different locations: charges or not charge. However, whether it is free, free software will give the user to freely use the right. Non-free software is usually sold at a high price, but some store will be half-to-half-way, even free to install you, but this does not mean that the software is free software, regardless of price or no price, because users are not used The freedom, so the software is not free software. Since the free software is non-price, the low price is not meant to be relatively free. So, when you release a free software, you can take some costs, or even earn a small money, let alone, then release free software is a good act, which is not a good money. Free software is a community project, and each beneficiary should do our best to make this community grow up. The distributors of free software can contribute to some of the revenue to the Free Software Foundation or other free software projects, and you can make free software's world more improved through the development of free software. Issue free software is a good opportunity for future development of fundraising, don't waste this opportunity! Because, in order to donate, you must have some remuneration, if you charge it too low, you will not have any surplus to donate Free Software Community as a future development fund. However, you may ask, will higher issuance price will hurt some users? It is sometimes worried that the charge will not be able to use the free software, which may exist in the privatous software (18k character), but free software is different. Different places are that free software will basically spread out, there are many different pipes to get it: or buy, or download, or copy, or send. Software hoarders use their best to pay a certain price to use private rights software, if the price is too high, of course some users will not want to use private rights. However, users can use free software without paying, and users can copy free software from friends, or download free software from the Internet, or several users can buy a CD together. -ROM is installed in their respective computers, if it is free software, the price of CD-ROM will not be too high. You may ask, will higher issuance price will hinder the use of free software? This is another common problem and is the popularity of free software. It is believed that high issuance prices will reduce the number of users, or anti-lower issues will increase the number of users. This is not true from the example of free software.
For a long time, the number of free software users mainly depends on "What is the free software to do for us," "Free Software is not easy to use"? If the free software does not provide his / their own features, many users will continue to use private rights, so in a long time, if we want to increase the number of users, the primary thing must develop more useful and easy to use. Free software. If you can help write more useful and easy free software and manuals, this is the most direct way! However, if you do the release of free software instead of writing free software, you can help the biggest busy, which is for those volunteers who write free software. Then you may ask, "Sold Soldware" seems not appropriate, may mislead the public. Strictly speaking, the meaning of "selling" is "with money", selling free software is legal, we also encourage this sales behavior. However, when it comes to "Soldware Software", people usually want to be a general company selling private rights software, not free software. So, unless you are like this article, you are very careful to classify the line. We recommend that you should best avoid using the vocabulary of "Soldware", and use other vocabulary to express, for example, you can say, "issue price Distributing Free Software for A Fee, there is no ambiguity, and ambiguous situation occurs. Finally, we want to make a clear price and the relationship between GNU General Public License (GPL). In addition to a special case, GNU General Public License (20K Characters) (GNU GPL) does not limit how much fees you can charge from the behavior of the release free software. You can do not charge, you can only receive a dollar, ten dollars, or even one million, just you! However, if no one is willing to pay one million to buy your version, don't blame us. However, the only special case is that when the issuer issued a binary code, when the full source code is not provided, the GNU general public license will hardly require the issuer to provide the source code. If the issuer requests a high price of millions of Taiwan? Sold in the source code, and the user cannot pay such a high price to buy the source code. This dealer will become an excuse to provide the source code. In this case, the GNU general public license limits the source price to protect The user's freedom, otherwise we do not limit, and do not standardize the issuance price. Sometimes, some manufacturers who don't comply with GNU general public licenses, in order to achieve the purpose of selling free software, I have used such as "GNU software without paying", I don't work! Free software is free, not price, implementation of GNU-General public license is to ensure the freedom of use, modify, copy, and then release software, when we guarantee these freedom, we will not compromise due to price problems . Freedom is the most important issue, and it is also the only problem. Read other text This page is returned to the GNU project home page. Please send a query about the "Free Software Foundation" and "GNU Engineering" to GNU@gnu.org. There are also other ways to contact the Free Software Foundation. Send the failure link and the correction (or suggestions) of other pages to WebMasterS@gnu.org. Please refer to the translation read me to obtain information about "coordination" and "authoring" translation. Please send questions about the translation to the GNU / CTT translator. Translation: Lin Wei | Yuwei LIN | YUWEI {at} Ylin {Dot} Org. Verification: Liu Zhaohong
