12 Mar
2007
12 Mar
'07
7:54 a.m.
On 12/03/07 08:26 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 11-Mar-07, at 9:42 PM, Raj Mathur wrote:
Do remember that even if the software is, e.g., GPL, there's no reason why you should have access to it. If I write a GPL software, only the people I distribute it to have any any right to the software. There is nothing in the GPL that states that I must make the source available for download, modification and/or redistribution to anyone except the people I distribute the software to.
when government writes software with our money, they should be forced to release it under a f/oss license - that is my contention. They havent.
Or more like the US government rules, where software written by/for the government is all public domain.
Devdas Bhagat
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