On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:03 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:

Is OSS following ethical lines? I'm reading further, things like GPL keep coming into the research. If you practise commerce on Open Source, what are your limitations of licenses that built the OSS?

GPL (version 2) is just one of the many open source licenses. Since you mention GPL let me give an example :

Lets say you use a open source (e.g. GPL v2 license) software cms with a shopping cart on your website - and your selling underwear online.

You can use the software without any restrictions on use.

Now lets say you want to change the source code of the open source cms because your underwear shopping cart had a new requirement, you can go ahead and change and modify it without restriction.