Oruma is a custom solution and so it cannot be deemed as proprietary software according to FSF's standards.
>From http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html > Private software > > Private or custom software is software developed for one user (typically an > organization or company). That user keeps it and uses it, and does not > release it to the public either as source code or as binaries. > > A private program is free software in a trivial sense if its unique user > has full rights to it. > > In general we do not believe it is wrong to develop a program and not > release it. There are occasions when a program is so useful that withholding > it from release is treating humanity badly. However, most programs are not > that important, so not releasing them is not particularly harmful. Thus, > there is no conflict between the development of private or custom software > and the principles of the free software movement. > > Nearly all employment for programmers is in development of custom software; > therefore most programming jobs are, or could be, done in a way compatible > with the free software movement. > -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
