[Ilugc] Open licenses question for hosted services built with OSS
- From: lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kenneth Gonsalves)
- Date: Thu Sep 30 12:18:06 2010
On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 00:27 +0530, kish wrote:
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?
which license are you talking about? as far as BSD license is concerned,
you can make the app proprietary and sell it too, as long as you change
the name and do not claim that the original authors have anything to do
with it. For GPL you cannot do this - other licenses have varying
restrictions - GPL most restrictive and BSD most free.
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regards
KG
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