On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 20:04 +0530, Rony wrote: > On Thursday 06 January 2011 12:49 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > > Now this was short and to the point. Thanks. > > > there are 35-40 recognised open source licenses. The simplest is the BSD > > license. It is only 3 clauses. Basically it says: > > > > you can use modify and redistribute the software in any way you like. > > The only condition is that if you make it proprietary then you cannot > > use the original name or attribute to the original. > > Can a software under BSD be simply copied and renamed under a > proprietary name and locked out to the developers?
I suggest you read this. Please read the *whole* including the list of software projects it covers: http://www.apache.org/foundation/licence-FAQ.html one snippet for example: <quote> Q. I have made changes to an Apache package and I want to distribute them. Do I need to contribute them to the Apache Software Foundation? A. No. You can keep your changes a secret if you like. Maybe your modifications are embarrassing, maybe you'll get rich selling those improvements. Whatever. But please seriously consider giving your changes back! We all benefit when you do. <unquote> As for your other questions, I cannot answer them. And I have one question for you - do you seriously think that the lakhs of users and contributors to the projects mentioned below do not know what they are doing: HTTP Server * Abdera * ActiveMQ * Ant * APR * Archiva * Avro * Axis * Buildr * Camel * Cassandra * Cayenne * Click * Cocoon * Commons * Continuum * CouchDB * CXF * DB * Directory * ESME * Excalibur * Felix * Forrest * Geronimo * Gump * Hadoop * Harmony * HBase * Hive * HttpComponents * Jackrabbit * Jakarta * James * Karaf * Lenya * Logging * Lucene * Mahout * Maven * Mina * MyFaces * Nutch * ODE * OODT * OFBiz * OpenEJB * OpenJPA * OpenWebBeans * PDFBox * Perl * Pig * Pivot * POI * Portals * Qpid * Roller * Santuario * ServiceMix * Shindig * Shiro * Sling * SpamAssassin * STDCXX * Struts * Subversion * Synapse * Tapestry * TCL * Thrift * Tika * Tiles * Tomcat * TrafficServer * Turbine * Tuscany * UIMA * Velocity * Wicket * Web Services * Xalan * Xerces * XML * XMLBeans * XML Graphics * Zoo Keeper -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com Coimbatore LUG rox http://ilugcbe.techstud.org/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
