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+<!--#set var="PO_FILE"
+ value='<a href="/philosophy/po/selling-exceptions.de.po">
+ https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/po/selling-exceptions.de.po</a>'
+ --><!--#set var="ORIGINAL_FILE" value="/philosophy/selling-exceptions.html"
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 <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.de.html" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/outdated.de.html" -->
 <h2>Ausnahmen zur GNU GPL verkaufen</h2>
 
 <p>von <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";><strong>Richard 
Stallman</strong></a></p>
@@ -201,7 +207,7 @@
 <p class="unprintable"><!-- timestamp start -->
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-$Date: 2016/12/03 23:45:11 $
+$Date: 2017/04/09 14:59:48 $
 
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-<!--#set var="ENGLISH_PAGE" value="/philosophy/selling-exceptions.en.html" -->
+<!--#set var="PO_FILE"
+ value='<a href="/philosophy/po/selling-exceptions.pl.po">
+ https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/po/selling-exceptions.pl.po</a>'
+ --><!--#set var="ORIGINAL_FILE" value="/philosophy/selling-exceptions.html"
+ --><!--#set var="DIFF_FILE" 
value="/philosophy/po/selling-exceptions.pl-diff.html"
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+<!--#include virtual="/server/outdated.pl.html" -->
 <h2>Sprzedaż wyjątków do&nbsp;GNU GPL</h2>
 
 <p><a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a></p>
@@ -210,7 +216,7 @@
 <p class="unprintable"><!-- timestamp start -->
 Aktualizowane:
 
-$Date: 2016/11/18 07:32:47 $
+$Date: 2017/04/09 14:59:49 $
 
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 &lt;!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --&gt;
-&lt;!-- Parent-Version: 1.77 --&gt;
-&lt;title&gt;Selling Exceptions <span class="inserted"><ins><em>to the GNU 
GPL</em></ins></span>
+&lt;!-- Parent-Version: 1.79 --&gt;
+&lt;title&gt;Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL
 - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation&lt;/title&gt;
 &lt;link rel="canonical" 
href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/selling-exceptions"; /&gt;
 &lt;!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/selling-exceptions.translist" --&gt;
 &lt;!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --&gt;
-&lt;h2&gt;Selling <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>Exceptions&lt;/h2&gt;</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>Exceptions to the GNU GPL&lt;/h2&gt;</em></ins></span>
+&lt;h2&gt;Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL&lt;/h2&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;by &lt;a href="http://www.stallman.org/"&gt;Richard 
Stallman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The practice of selling license exceptions became a hot 
topic
-when I co-signed Knowledge Ecology International's letter warning that
-Oracle's purchase of MySQL (plus the rest of Sun) might not be good
-for MySQL.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As the following article explains, my feelings about selling
-license exceptions are mixed.  Clearly it is possible to develop
-powerful and complex software packages under the GNU GPL without
-selling exceptions, and we do this.  MySQL can be developed this way
-too.  However, selling exceptions has been used by MySQL developers.
-Who should decide whether to continue this?  I don't think it is wise
-to give major decisions about a free software project to a large
-proprietary competitor, which might naturally prefer that the project
-develop less rather than more.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;One thing that makes no sense at all is the idea of changing
-the license of MySQL to something non-copyleft.  That would eliminate
-the possibility of selling exceptions, but allow all sorts of
-proprietary modified versions.  Wherever MySQL should go, it isn't
-there.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;h3&gt;On Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL&lt;/h3&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;When I co-signed
+<span class="removed"><del><strong>&lt;p&gt;When I co-signed
 the &lt;a href="/philosophy/ec_letter_mysql_oct19.pdf"&gt;letter objecting
 to Oracle's planned purchase of
 MySQL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href="#footnote"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; 
(along with the rest of
 Sun), some free software supporters were surprised that I approved of
 the practice of selling license exceptions which the MySQL developers
 have used.  They expected me to condemn the practice outright.  This
-article explains what I think of the practice, and why.&lt;/p&gt;
+article explains what I think of the practice, and 
why.&lt;/p&gt;</strong></del></span>
 
 &lt;p&gt;Selling exceptions means that the copyright holder of the code
 releases it to the public under a free software license, then lets
@@ -66,10 +43,34 @@
 exceptions, the same code that the exception applies to is available
 to the general public as free software.  An extension or a modified
 version that is only available under a proprietary license is
-proprietary software, pure and simple, and no better than any other
+proprietary software, pure and simple, and <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>no better than</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>just as wrong as</em></ins></span> any other
 proprietary software.  This article is concerned with cases that
 involve strictly and only the sale of exceptions.&lt;/p&gt;
 
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;p&gt;We must also distinguish selling 
exceptions from dual licensing,
+which means releasing the program under a choice of licenses.  With
+dual licensing, each user can choose to use the program under either
+one of the licenses, or under both in parallel for activities that fit
+both.  (Thus, redistributors normally pass along both of the
+licenses.)  For instance, Perl was distributed for many years under a
+dual license whose alternatives were the GNU GPL and the Artistic
+License.  That is not necessary any more because version 2 of the
+Artistic License is compatible with the GNU GPL.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;In selling exceptions, the exception's terms are not a second
+license that the program is released under.  Rather, they are
+available only to those users that buy an exception.  The only license
+that the release carries is the GNU GPL, so this is not dual
+licensing.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;We must distinguish selling of exceptions from the usual kind of
+&ldquo;exception to the GPL,&rdquo; which simply gives all users
+permission to go beyond the GPL's conditions in some specific way.
+These exceptions are governed by section 7 of the GNU GPL.  Selling
+exceptions is legally independent of the GNU GPL.  To avoid confusion
+it is best not to refer to exceptions that are sold as
+&ldquo;exceptions to the GPL.&rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</em></ins></span>
+
 &lt;p&gt;I've considered selling exceptions acceptable since the 1990s, and on
 occasion I've suggested it to companies.  Sometimes this approach has
 made it possible for important programs to become free software.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -109,13 +110,15 @@
 that the developer that sold the exception is doing something wrong
 too?&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;If that implication is valid, it would also apply to releasing the
+&lt;p&gt;If that implication <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>is</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>were</em></ins></span> valid, it would also apply to 
releasing the
 same program under a noncopyleft free software license, such as the
 X11 license.  That also permits such embedding.  So either we have to
 conclude that it's wrong to release anything under the X11
 license&mdash;a conclusion I find unacceptably extreme&mdash;or reject
-this implication.  Using a noncopyleft license is weak, and usually an
-inferior choice, but it's not wrong.&lt;/p&gt;
+<span class="removed"><del><strong>this</strong></del></span>
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em>the</em></ins></span> implication.  Using a 
noncopyleft license is weak,
+and <span class="removed"><del><strong>usually</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;a 
href="/licenses/license-recommendations.html"&gt;usually</em></ins></span> an
+inferior <span class="removed"><del><strong>choice,</strong></del></span> 
<span class="inserted"><ins><em>choice&lt;/a&gt;,</em></ins></span> but it's 
not wrong.&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;In other words, selling exceptions permits limited embedding of the
 code in proprietary software, but the X11 license goes even further,
@@ -130,7 +133,7 @@
 under GPL version 3-or-later and not allow embedding in proprietary
 software.  Selling exceptions wouldn't achieve this, just as release
 under the X11 license wouldn't.  So normally we don't do either of
-those things.  We release under the GPL only.&lt;/p&gt;
+those <span class="removed"><del><strong>things.  We</strong></del></span> 
<span class="inserted"><ins><em>things: we</em></ins></span> release under the 
GPL only.&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;Another reason we release only under the GPL is so as not to permit
 proprietary extensions that would present practical advantages over
@@ -138,7 +141,9 @@
 those non-free versions rather than the free programs they are based
 on&mdash;and lose their freedom.  We don't want to encourage that.&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;But there are occasional cases where, for specific reasons of
+<span class="removed"><del><strong>&lt;p&gt;But there</strong></del></span>
+
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;p&gt;There</em></ins></span> are 
occasional cases where, for specific reasons of
 strategy, we decide that using a more permissive license on a certain
 program is better for the cause of freedom.  In those cases, we
 release the program to everyone under that permissive license.&lt;/p&gt;
@@ -155,11 +160,12 @@
 and I will suggest it where appropriate as a way to get programs
 freed.&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;h4&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h4&gt;
+<span class="removed"><del><strong>&lt;h4&gt;Footnotes&lt;/h4&gt;
 
 &lt;p id="footnote"&gt;This is a local copy of the document
 from &lt;a 
href="http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/ec_letter_mysql_oct19.pdf"&gt;its
-original location&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+original location&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</strong></del></span>
+
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@@ -189,18 +195,17 @@
 information on coordinating and submitting translations of this 
article.&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;/div&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;Copyright &copy; 2009, <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>2010</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>2010, 2015, 2016</em></ins></span> Richard 
Stallman&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Copyright &copy; 2009, 2010, 2015, <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>2016</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>2016, 2017</em></ins></span> Richard 
Stallman&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;This page is licensed under a &lt;a rel="license"
-<span 
class="removed"><del><strong>href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/"&gt;Creative</strong></del></span>
-<span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/"&gt;Creative</em></ins></span>
-Commons <span class="removed"><del><strong>Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United 
States</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 
International</em></ins></span> License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/"&gt;Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 
License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" --&gt;
 
 &lt;p class="unprintable"&gt;Updated:
 &lt;!-- timestamp start --&gt;
-$Date: 2016/02/29 22:58:30 $
+$Date: 2017/04/09 14:59:49 $
 &lt;!-- timestamp end --&gt;
 &lt;/p&gt;
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+&lt;!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --&gt;
+&lt;!-- Parent-Version: 1.79 --&gt;
+&lt;title&gt;Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation&lt;/title&gt;
+&lt;link rel="canonical" 
href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/selling-exceptions"; /&gt;
+&lt;!--#include virtual="/philosophy/po/selling-exceptions.translist" --&gt;
+&lt;!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --&gt;
+&lt;h2&gt;Selling Exceptions to the GNU GPL&lt;/h2&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;by &lt;a href="http://www.stallman.org/"&gt;Richard 
Stallman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+<span class="removed"><del><strong>&lt;p&gt;When I co-signed
+the &lt;a href="/philosophy/ec_letter_mysql_oct19.pdf"&gt;letter objecting
+to Oracle's planned purchase of
+MySQL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href="#footnote"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; 
(along with the rest of
+Sun), some free software supporters were surprised that I approved of
+the practice of selling license exceptions which the MySQL developers
+have used.  They expected me to condemn the practice outright.  This
+article explains what I think of the practice, and 
why.&lt;/p&gt;</strong></del></span>
+
+&lt;p&gt;Selling exceptions means that the copyright holder of the code
+releases it to the public under a free software license, then lets
+customers pay for permission to use the same code under different
+terms, for instance allowing its inclusion in proprietary
+applications.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;We must distinguish the practice of selling exceptions from something
+crucially different: purely proprietary extensions or versions of
+a free program.  These two activities, even if practiced
+simultaneously by one company, are different issues.  In selling
+exceptions, the same code that the exception applies to is available
+to the general public as free software.  An extension or a modified
+version that is only available under a proprietary license is
+proprietary software, pure and simple, and <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>no better than</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>just as wrong as</em></ins></span> any other
+proprietary software.  This article is concerned with cases that
+involve strictly and only the sale of exceptions.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;p&gt;We must also distinguish selling 
exceptions from dual licensing,
+which means releasing the program under a choice of licenses.  With
+dual licensing, each user can choose to use the program under either
+one of the licenses, or under both in parallel for activities that fit
+both.  (Thus, redistributors normally pass along both of the
+licenses.)  For instance, Perl was distributed for many years under a
+dual license whose alternatives were the GNU GPL and the Artistic
+License.  That is not necessary any more because version 2 of the
+Artistic License is compatible with the GNU GPL.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;In selling exceptions, the exception's terms are not a second
+license that the program is released under.  Rather, they are
+available only to those users that buy an exception.  The only license
+that the release carries is the GNU GPL, so this is not dual
+licensing.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;We must distinguish selling of exceptions from the usual kind of
+&ldquo;exception to the GPL,&rdquo; which simply gives all users
+permission to go beyond the GPL's conditions in some specific way.
+These exceptions are governed by section 7 of the GNU GPL.  Selling
+exceptions is legally independent of the GNU GPL.  To avoid confusion
+it is best not to refer to exceptions that are sold as
+&ldquo;exceptions to the GPL.&rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;</em></ins></span>
+
+&lt;p&gt;I've considered selling exceptions acceptable since the 1990s, and on
+occasion I've suggested it to companies.  Sometimes this approach has
+made it possible for important programs to become free software.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The KDE desktop was developed in the 90s based on the Qt library.  Qt
+was proprietary software, and TrollTech charged for permission to
+embed it in proprietary applications.  TrollTech allowed gratis use of
+Qt in free applications, but this did not make it free/libre software.
+Completely free operating systems therefore could not include Qt, so
+they could not use KDE either.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;In 1998, the management of TrollTech recognized that they could
+make Qt free software and continue charging for permission to embed it
+in proprietary software.  I do not recall whether the suggestion came
+from me, but I certainly was happy to see the change, which made it
+possible to use Qt and thus KDE in the free software world.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Initially, they used their own license, the Q Public License
+(QPL)&mdash;quite restrictive as free software licenses go, and
+incompatible with the GNU GPL.  Later they switched to the GNU GPL; I
+think I had explained to them that it would work for the purpose.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Selling exceptions depends fundamentally on using a copyleft
+license, such as the GNU GPL, for the free software release.  A
+copyleft license permits embedding in a larger program only if the
+whole combined program is released under that license; this is how it
+ensures extended versions will also be free.  Thus, users that want to
+make the combined program proprietary need special permission.  Only
+the copyright holder can grant that, and selling exceptions is one
+style of doing so.  Someone else, who received the code under the GNU
+GPL or another copyleft license, cannot grant an exception.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;When I first heard of the practice of selling exceptions, I asked
+myself whether the practice is ethical.  If someone buys an exception
+to embed a program in a larger proprietary program, he's doing
+something wrong (namely, making proprietary software).  Does it follow
+that the developer that sold the exception is doing something wrong
+too?&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If that implication <span 
class="removed"><del><strong>is</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>were</em></ins></span> valid, it would also apply to 
releasing the
+same program under a noncopyleft free software license, such as the
+X11 license.  That also permits such embedding.  So either we have to
+conclude that it's wrong to release anything under the X11
+license&mdash;a conclusion I find unacceptably extreme&mdash;or reject
+<span class="removed"><del><strong>this</strong></del></span>
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em>the</em></ins></span> implication.  Using a 
noncopyleft license is weak,
+and <span class="removed"><del><strong>usually</strong></del></span> <span 
class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;a 
href="/licenses/license-recommendations.html"&gt;usually</em></ins></span> an
+inferior <span class="removed"><del><strong>choice,</strong></del></span> 
<span class="inserted"><ins><em>choice&lt;/a&gt;,</em></ins></span> but it's 
not wrong.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;In other words, selling exceptions permits limited embedding of the
+code in proprietary software, but the X11 license goes even further,
+permitting unlimited use of the code (and modified versions of it) in
+proprietary software.  If this doesn't make the X11 license
+unacceptable, it doesn't make selling exceptions unacceptable.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;There are three reasons why the FSF doesn't practice selling
+exceptions.  One is that it doesn't lead to the FSF's goal: assuring
+freedom for each user of our software.  That's what we wrote the GNU
+GPL for, and the way to achieve this most thoroughly is to release
+under GPL version 3-or-later and not allow embedding in proprietary
+software.  Selling exceptions wouldn't achieve this, just as release
+under the X11 license wouldn't.  So normally we don't do either of
+those <span class="removed"><del><strong>things.  We</strong></del></span> 
<span class="inserted"><ins><em>things: we</em></ins></span> release under the 
GPL only.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Another reason we release only under the GPL is so as not to permit
+proprietary extensions that would present practical advantages over
+our free programs.  Users for whom freedom is not a value might choose
+those non-free versions rather than the free programs they are based
+on&mdash;and lose their freedom.  We don't want to encourage that.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+<span class="removed"><del><strong>&lt;p&gt;But there</strong></del></span>
+
+<span class="inserted"><ins><em>&lt;p&gt;There</em></ins></span> are 
occasional cases where, for specific reasons of
+strategy, we decide that using a more permissive license on a certain
+program is better for the cause of freedom.  In those cases, we
+release the program to everyone under that permissive license.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is because of another ethical principle that the FSF follows:
+to treat all users the same.  An idealistic campaign for freedom
+should not discriminate, so the FSF is committed to giving the same
+license to all users.  The FSF never sells exceptions; whatever
+license or licenses we release a program under, that is available to
+everyone.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;But we need not insist that companies follow that principle.  I
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+
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