[Ilugc] Open licenses question for hosted services built with OSS

  • From: realmailer@xxxxxxxxx (kish)
  • Date: Thu Sep 30 00:28:16 2010

Hi,

Was just curious about this:

I have seen organisations charge for services for OSS.

Some even produce complete products that use OSS along with other
custom-developed(proprietary) apps and sell them.

Wouldn't it be illegal to market a suite of OSS customized to a
particular business requirement and hosted on
a private cloud or whatever(making it a service)?

All the while re-branding the underlying OSS, thereby to some degree
hiding the facts from customers.

Do open licenses allow this kind of freedom?

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Kish
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