[ILUG-BOM] RMS in Mumbai
Kenneth Gonsalves
lawgon@[EMAIL-PROTECTED]
Sat Aug 19 10:56:17 IST 2006
On 17-Aug-06, at 11:30 AM, Anurag wrote:
>>> If I want to see my software widely used and don't care about the
>>> fact
>>> that the end user may not be able to modify it, I would choose
>>> the BSD
>>> license.
>>
>> are you sure bsd-style licenses forbid enduser modification? Most
>> of the
>> internet is down for me, so i couldnt verify this
>
>
> It is not modifiable onces it is incorporated into proprietary
> product, which is what end user may get most of the times.
once it gets into a proprietory product, that product is no longer
under a bsd style license, but the main branch is still available and
modifiable
--
regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
Associate, NRC-FOSS
lawgon at au-kbc.org
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/
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