nipra wrote:
Hi,
On 2/18/07, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
i would say the major difference is the absence of copyleft in OSS
What OSS definition you are talking about? Yours? Or as defined by Open Source Initiative ? Or is it politically neutral enough to include the term Free as in Freedom?
You are again mixing the term OSS with FOSS. OSS is not always Free OSS.
Did you read what copyleft meant? Please stop spreading FUD and do some research before issuing such vague and confusing statements.
Copy- pasting from: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/copyleft.html
``Copyleft is a general method for making a program or other work free, and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free as well.''
Now I don't understand what it means to make a false claim that ``major difference is the absence of copyleft in OSS''. [SNIP] For now I would like to ignore your all subsequent replies.
Again a mix-up of OSS and FOSS. It would be better to use 'Libre' for Free OSS and Open Source for OSS. Kenneth has very clearly explained his point, even mentioning in his earlier posts that the OSS licence of Scilab is not the recognized OSS license.
At the SELF conference in TIFR, a very good point was raised by the guest speakers that hoarding of knowledge is against the development of society and up-liftment of the weaker sections of society. That is why knowledge should be free. When I see the political situation in India and abroad and the way we disagree on this list, I feel that we still haven't understood the true meaning of freedom. Just as knowledge should not be hoarded, Freedom should not/never be hoarded. Freedom has to be shared, to be passed on to others. Give others the same freedom that we expect from them.
And let us throw flames at each other in the same spirit as we throw colours during Holi.
Regards,
Rony.
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