[Ilugc] Open licenses question for hosted services built with OSS
- From: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx (steve)
- Date: Thu Sep 30 14:49:24 2010
Hi,
On 09/30/2010 01:03 PM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
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.
Care to elaborate on this ? While I understand and respect the choice of BSD
users, making sweeping statements such as the above serves no purpose except
confuse people.
There is *nothing* unclear about either Linux or GPL. Yes, you may say that in
/your/ definition of freedom, the GPL is less free, but in the FSF's definition
of freedom, the GPL is free. However that doesn't make it 'unclear', it makes
it
'different'.
Also, what exactly do you mean by generalizations such as 'Stallman has made
life hell for commercial folks' ? References please.
He himself does not know what he wants.
Heh, this is so far away from the truth ! Stallman knows /exactly/ what he
wants, even to the point of being stubborn, inflexible and annoying at times !
His principles have been consistently been proved right, be it the SCO trials,
the dangers of Java/.NET, software patents ...etc. If anything at all, Stallman
is consistent and stubborn in his beliefs. Saying he does not know what he
wants, proves you do not know what you are talking about.
These problems are avoided in toto when you embrace the BSD world and
in particular OpenBSD.
...to the determent of the larger populace of users.
cheers,
- steve
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