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There are slogans about this ("free software is a matter of freedom, not price", "software should not have owners") but the issue in practice seems to be that software licensed that way is not very good at attracting contributions or broad support. Also, it's difficult to write a license that has the effect of requiring payment without also introducing the other problems that non-free licenses have: you depend on software that you don't have the right to fix, for example.



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