On Tuesday 28. February 2017 10.11.04 Agner Fog wrote:
On 27-02-2017 15:44, Paul Boddie wrote:
What would be interesting to see is an organisation that can invoice people for spending money on Free Software which remains Free Software.
Yes, exactly. An organization to sell license exceptions to GPL software.
No, that is not what I meant. Maybe that is what you would be interested in, but what I would be interested in is an organisation that allows people to acquire Free Software under the normal licensing terms - no exceptions or alternative licences - in a way that satisfies their organisation's bureaucratic requirements of having a nominated supplier and for there to be a transaction they can record.
Once upon a time, the FSF sold tapes with all the GNU software on them, and I guess there were also paper manuals you could buy. Such things were apparently one way of satisfying such bureaucratic requirements where donations would otherwise be made. What I would be interested in are ways of achieving this in a world where no physical artefacts need to be exchanged.
Paul