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You also want it to be available either for free or "at cost". That is, "open source" is only meaningful after you've received the software. Your solution doesn't prohibit me from requiring you to pay $500,000 to get my research software under the GPL.

"we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can." - https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html



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