2010/7/15 Anoop Jacob Thomas <[email protected]> > Any software which is a fork of an already existing Free Software (licensed > under a Free Software license) is also a Free Software, otherwise it is > violation of license. >
I have read "Free Software, Free Society: Selected essays of Richard M. Stallman". According to that, a fork of free software need not be a free software. Eg : Xwindows, We are using Xwindows in GNU/Linux and MacOS. There comes another term, called copy-left. A copy-left ed free software and its forks remains free software for ever. GPL license is one of such license. Linux kernel is one such software. Stop, read completely before starting a flame war. > By typing about:license in your Mozilla Firefox you may view the license. > Firefox is a combination of 3 licenses. You can follow terms of any of the licence. 1. MPL 2. GPL 3. LGPL Here comes the problem. The LGPL ( Lesser GPL ) allows you to link Firefox to proprietary applications. I don't know about MPL. > > So if Epic is a fork of Firefox, then it is a Free Software project too, if > stated otherwise and you do not get the source code, then SFLC[ > http://www.softwarefreedom.org/] can protect your rights. > Epic is not responsible to release the modifications if they have done only dynamic linking, ie, a set of plug-ins and themes ( that are proprietary ) makes the modifications. NB : This is my observations regarding the point. Please correct me if I am wrong. -- Regards, Anish A http://identi.ca/aneeshnl -- "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
