Nobody compels you to release it as Free Software, but don't insist you want to call it Free Software and still being able to restrict the user of the fundamantal Freedoms. Is anyone infringing upon Microsoft's moral rights because they release non-free software. We said we will show you how to make ethical software and demonstrated practically how to develop ethical software and it now powers a billion dolla industry. Just see how much money IBM, HP, and others make from Free Software
i agree they profit from it.
"HP claims it has started to make higher margins from open source than proprietary software in some instances, due to the support costs associated with migration." http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39284344,00.htm
sure..
If the creator wishes it to be distributed then it's fine. But he
should have his say.
He has, that's how the whole FOSS software works it is not Richard Stallman or Linus Torvals that decides the license for a FOSS Software, it is individual developers who decide and it is their code and they have chosen to allow Free distribution.
That being said, there are seperate licenses.. (GPL)
is just one of them. I can choose to modify a particular software and sell it under a different license.
No you cannot unless you right it yourself.
isn't that the point? to write myself when i say modify some parts i can release those parts under as different license.
or it is under BSD. If you
are not ready to give your software to other how hippocrite of you to expect to be allowed to distribute a GPL software in any license you like!
nobody said am not ready to give my software out. it was about free distribution. if i write something i allow you to change, modify and do as you wish just dont release a variant using my code and after appending you code. i would ofcourse extend the same respect to the code from the original software.
As long as can leech code from others ...
untrue..
You don't have to accept it but don't say it is not right because you don't like it.
Why not? I have laid out my reasons. Don't say my reasons are incorrect without dis-proving it.
Call your software something else. If you want to call your software FOSS then you have to follow the FOSS philosophy or you are free to call it something else.
sure .. but you fail to notice the failures in some points in FOSS.
It's a fundamental moral infringement upon the creators
right.
You don't understand a bit about anything.
is it not really? if i make something does the society/government have a right to tell me what/how to do stuff? lets not resort to personal remarks shall we :). iam finally receiving some good replies .. lets not spoil that.
You being able to use a distributable software is your privilege
not your right!
It is the right of the users to chose only softwares that allow them to redustribute.
here we are in agreement. option/right to choose!!
regards, Sachin G.