Hi, --- On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:27 AM, kish <[email protected]> wrote: | I have seen organisations charge for services for OSS. | | Some even produce complete products that use OSS along with other | custom-developed(proprietary) apps and sell them. \--
Yes. --- | Wouldn't it be illegal to market a suite of OSS customized to a | particular business requirement and hosted on | a private cloud or whatever(making it a service)? \-- It is not illegal. It is just a question of whether it is the right thing to do, depending on how you look at it. --- | Do open licenses allow this kind of freedom? \-- IANAL, but the GPLv3 and Affero GPLv3 closes this application service provider loop-hole. One needs to provide the source code of any Free Software service that is run over a network under these licenses. SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
