On Friday 02 Jan 2009 10:40:28 am Praveen A wrote:
commercial (sell / trade) software subject to the terms of the gpl, just in case they were actually that dumb and could not read legal docs or the dictionary.
Some terms are used anyway even though it is confusing or they know it is not correct or we campaign not to use it, because that is so common. intellectual property is one such example. commercial is another. Why there is a controversy about Linux and GNU/Linux?
because there is a dispute about the meaning of the terms. There is no dispute about the meaning of the terms 'commercial' and 'proprietary'.