On 12-Feb-07, at 1:24 PM, Baishampayan Ghose wrote: >> which free software license is gmail released under? > > FYI, GMail is not a software but a web-service. The concept of Free > Software doesn't extend to web-services yet because the Internet > was in > its infancy in 1991 or so.
it is now 2007. Does it make any difference whether a software is running on your machine or on a remote server? You are using the software - obviously there is some sort of license or eula for using even gmail? For example, using wikipedia, as far as i know, the code is available for download. Does this make a difference? And all those google addons to the browser, how about them? are they free or proprietary or web-services? This is not a flame-bait, I only started thinking about this when the OP said that gmail is 'free'. > It's still debatable whether Google is violating the GPL or not since > the GPL permits users to make private modifications and since > Google is > not distributing the source code of GMail, it is deemed as a private > modification. i didnt get into the argument of whether google is violating gpl. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ 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/
