20 Nov
2011
20 Nov
'11
11:20 p.m.
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 11:14 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
@Ashok, not to make this thread another 100 series, why does OSS not follow the original FSF?
because nothing is monolithic. life evolves, software evolves, requirements evolve. Which is why the GPL (the original FSF license) has evolved and mutated into many different OSS licenses ...some more restrictive / free than others (depending on how different people have interpreted the meaning of "freedom" and "restriction"
Also, when uou change the code in OSS to suit your needs, are you supposed to give that improved version back to the community in agreement with the GPL license use?
no. you dont if you dont want to.