On Tuesday 15 September 1998, at 8 h 53, the keyboard of Sven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> also another concern for this peoples is the right to modification > of the software, someone can take the software modify it and then sell it, > without according credits to the true author, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is not possible, even under the very relaxed BSD licence, not even speaking of the GPL. > or giving some of the money back to it. Correct. If you *require* money for your software, it is no longer free. > how can a university make a financing deal with a private company to exploit > one of their product, if said company can just grab the source and develop it > f > or themself. The University can provide (for a fee), help, support, etc to the company. [BTW, these are really *basic* problems of free software. In France, see the newsgroup fr.comp.applications.libres for instance.]
