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 -- Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
