Hi,
--- On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:27 AM, kish <realmailer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| I have seen organisations charge for services for OSS.
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| Some even produce complete products that use OSS along with other
| custom-developed(proprietary) apps and sell them.
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Yes.
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| 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)?
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It is not illegal. It is just a question of whether it is the right
thing to do, depending on how you look at it.
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| Do open licenses allow this kind of freedom?
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IANAL, but the GPLv3 and Affero GPLv3 closes this application service
provider loop-hole. One needs to provide the source code of any Free
Software service that is run over a network under these licenses.
SK
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Shakthi Kannan
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