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David Botton writes:
>> No. GPL software is *not* shareware and does *not* prevent commercial
>> use, except in your opinion.  Do not present your opinion as truth; this
>> is confusing.
>
> GPL is a license. Shareware is a sales model. You are trying to
> compare apples and oranges. There is no confusion on my part or in my
> statements only making something crystal clear, even if painful for
> some to face.

Stop it.

Quoting Wikipedia: "The term shareware is used in contrast to
open-source software, in which the source code is available for anyone
to inspect and alter, and freeware, which is software distributed at no
cost to the user but without source code being made available."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareware

And the inventors of the GPL coined the term "free software" with the
specific goal of distinguishing it from "shareware".

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html

--
Ludovic Brenta.