On 23-11-2013 2:18, Martin Owens wrote:
Hey Tav,
Great answers, one bit of added info:
On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 21:58 +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
- Is Inkscape an open source or commercial product? If it is
commercial, can you provide a price range per-seat?
This kind of conflation is persistently aggravating.
- Inkscape is open source: Because it's developed in the open in a peer
community and has a OSI approved license.
- Inkscape is Free Software: Because it gives users freedom and has an
FSF approved license.
- Inkscape is Commercial: Because it _can_ be sold, by anyone, for any
price in any market.
All Free Software is commercial software, just not /exclusively/ commercial and most typically download software without any commercial arrangement or payment. But the possibility is always there because the license doesn't prohibit a commercial relationship with users.
See there are people who wish to spin Free Software to mean 'charity' and likewise make proprietary software the only 'commercial' software development method. I'd like to encourage everyone to correct conflations like the one in this question so we can encourage the development of commercial Free Software further.
Let's tone down the response to InfoWorld (Inkscape is not commercial btw). It's indeed nice to add a reference to OSI and FSF. I think it is also important to explicitly state our license GPL v2, and that this also permits commercial use of the program. So I propose the following:
* Is Inkscape an open source or commercial product? If it is commercial, can you provide a price range per-seat?
Inkscape is Free/Libre Open Source Software, and is licensed under an OSI and FSF approved license (GPL v2). Inkscape can thus be used for free, and the license also permits free commercial use of the program. Inkscape can be downloaded from: http://inkscape.org/download/
regards, Johan