On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 08:31 -0400, Baskar Selvaraj wrote: > > I had only one major correction for him - he used the phrase > 'Copyrighted Software' to describe 'Proprietary Software'. I felt he > should've stuck to Proprietary itself; > > I agree that, in the 2nd part I have used the term Copyright software > few times to mean the proprietary software. > > The below quote from www.gnu.org would justify why I have used the > term copyright software for proprietary software. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/ > > "Proprietary software developers use copyright to take away the users' > freedom; we use copyright to guarantee their freedom. That's why we > reverse the name, changing “copyright” into “copyleft.” > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >
good point. But remember that this only applies to software released under the GPL. A lot of the software we use is released under BSD style licenses. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
