not to be left out of the 100 posts, here is my opinion on open source and FSF and all those Freedoms. 1: If you get it free, and youre told you can use it for free or commercial usage without any conditions, it is TRUE OPEN SOURCE. (wordpress) 2: If you get it free, with limited features, can use what you have for free or commercially without any other conditions, and can pay for other features or support, i call this CAPITALISTIC / COMMERCIAL OPEN SOURCE. (ubuntu / OpenERP) 3: If its free, with strings attached (like you pay to remove some garbage, or some files are encoded, or you cant remove the footer, or have to authenticate online...e.t.c it is NOT OPEN SOURCE. (sugar CRM) On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Ashok Hariharan <ashok@parliaments.info> wrote:
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.
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