[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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