in infinite wisdom ankit walia spoke thus On 03/27/2006 10:13 PM: > 1) if a person puts his efforts in making a gud software,ok,then why he puts > his code openly,i agree that its benefits others,now see another question in > row.
See http://rajshekhar.net/content/view/3/26/ , especially the section "Lets Talk Economics" > > 2) i dont know much about GPL and other type of licences,but what my friend > said that if someone purchases some software like we were talking about zend > studio then zend people will give them the source code of zend studio. is > this right? With Free Software (GPL, Apache, BSD, Artistic and other Free software licenses http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html ) , you get the source code as well as the the freedom to change and redistribute (for free or for a fees) the software. However, when you get the source for proprietary software, they come without these freedom. Have a look at the four freedoms that free software give you http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html -- _.-, raj shekhar .--' '-._ http://rajshekhar.net _/`- _ '. http://rajshekhar.net/blog '----'._`.----. \ ` \; WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE ;_\ -- God's Last Message to his Creation _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
