Posts made by Martin Dougiamas

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If I had it I would just redirect it to http://moodle.com

The restrictions are purely on things that would conflict with http://moodle.com, so there is a lot of other uses you could put it to.

If you have particular ideas that you would like us to check, just use http://moodle.com/helpdesk
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The fact that you sell software is completely unrelated to the license that the buyer is under.

In this case, if you sell GPL software, then the person who bought it is perfectly entitled to distribute the source code for free to anyone else they like. So I have no problem with anyone selling addons for Moodle or even Moodle itself (be it on your head when the buyer later discovers they could have downloaded it for free!)

My stance on licensing is that the cleanroom conditions required to legally NOT license new Moodle code under an open source license are so ridiculous that they are practically impossible, and so in the real world all new code should be under the GPL or a looser compatible license, as discussed by others here.

It's just a better model all round to think of selling your precious time rather than trying to impose the industrial-age concept of selling access to electrons that were basically free to produce.
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