-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 17.10.2013 08:26, Ravi Kumar wrote: > How many of the OSGeo Softwares are Copy Left and Copy Right > Pl give a link where therationale is explained especially for OSGeo. > I am aware that Free Software Foundation has things explained. > This is to a great extent true only in countries like USA where software > can be copy righted. > In many countries software does not come under Copyright. Example: India.
Ravi, this is interesting. What kind of rights are attributed (if any) to software in India? There is a comparable / yet very different issue in continental European legal systems. "Copyright" did not exist here until they were introduced from anglo-saxon jurisdictions in the last century together with patents and the like. "We" instead had "originator's rights" which is an intangible asset / cannot be "sold" like copyrights. The concept of copyright, patents and "IP" is now enforced by WTO, WIPO and the like and keeps the machine running for good or bad. Free and Open Source Software licenses come from within the legal system of Copyrights and re-implements a commons which works perfectly (other than the tragic materialistic commons). But people lack an understanding of the difference between sharing material goods and digital goods [7]. I believe the closest to a rationale on OSGeo's take on Free and Open Source Software (but not an officially endorsed position) can be found in recursive loops here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Commercial_Software http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Free_Software http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Source Cheers, Arnulf [7] http://arnulf.us/Share - -- Arnulf Christl (Director) The metaspatial Institute Certification: Open Source - Open Data - Open Standards http://www.metaspatial.net/en/institute -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlJf1AoACgkQXmFKW+BJ1b2xogCff9AfPuCEKZ3RUYZyORfQBx6V pAYAnAiMl6+C6sAWt2+FXo3yBCOnZ9OI =Uc+R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss