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KaVir:
A license is a contract between two parties. Reading just the license, what grounds do you have for suggesting that it should be obvious to other people reading it that "profit" isn't really what they wanted to say? I certainly didn't think "oh, they obviously mean 'revenue', not 'profit'" when I first saw and agreed to it. Did you?
Rather than posting links for a basic dictionary site rather than a dedicated financial authority, please take a look at a genuine quarterly report submitted to the SEC for a business which pushes bits over a wire, Digital River:
Look at the calculation of gross profit closely, and note the breakdown on what's included in direct cost of revenue.
By discussing this, I'm not stipulating that "gross profit" is the correct standard- the license only says "profit". I'm simply choosing to demonstrate that even if it were, that still wouldn't prove the case you want it to.
Stilton
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