[Ilugc] Open licenses question for hosted services built with OSS
- From: girishvenkatachalam@xxxxxxxxx (Girish Venkatachalam)
- Date: Thu Sep 30 13:04:41 2010
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves
<lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
Kenneth is quite accurate.
Look at what company does.
I take OpenBSD and commercialize it. In the BSD world OpenBSD allows
the maximum freedom.
But most people have their noses stuck in the sand like an ostrich and
their vision gets clouded
the moment they see beyond Linux.
With Linux a lot of things are unclear. In the GNU world Stallman has
made life hell for commercial folks.
He himself does not know what he wants.
These problems are avoided in toto when you embrace the BSD world and
in particular OpenBSD.
Best of luck with your commercial endeavors.
-Girish
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