You might give it away for free to some, but this is not open source anymore. See 5. and 6. of the OSD: https://opensource.org/osd-annotated
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Depends on how you define "some". For example "those who are content with the terms of the GPL"...
Sure, but selling FOSS to those in violation of the GPL doesn't sound like a tremendous business model to me.. :)
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Selling to the "I wish I could use that but I can't GPL my product" crowd makes a lot of sense.
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Yes, but that's not a criteria on what you are. Those people are still allowed to use the GPL version of the product within bounds of GPL.
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And all the examples I can think up that make sense as business model (commercial users, military users, non-academic, etc) violate the OSD.
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Its not about compliance with the OSD, but about surviving as a commercial entity with a business model that allows code based cooperation.
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