On Wed, Oct 01 2008, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 October 2008 22:22:11 Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>>
>> So, it is software that helps to provide a service. That
>> piece of software is non-free. I think that matters.
>>
>> Whether the software runs as a one shot unix like
>> input/output filter, or it generates web pages, or it is daemonized
>> and
>> handles requests (like, say, an X Windows server), it is still a
>> computer program that runs and manipulated bits. If it is not free
>> software, it is like any other free to use closed source software.
>>
>> And having the major original pieceof software Ubuntu writes
>> being closed source matters, whether it is or is not a daemon. Free
>> software is not about it being free to use. It is about it being
>> free to modify and distribute.
>>
>
> * Any particular reason why nobody from Debian or elsewhere has actually
> cribbed about RHN not being open source?
I usually do not go about complaining about the plethora of
non-free software out there. This topic got my goat.
> * Leaving aside Launchpad, do you seriously believe that whenever
> someone writes a web application to provide a service to people, the
> author is obliged to spend time trying to package it as a general
> purpose software which can be reused by others for other kind of
> applications?
If you want to be known as a good free software citizen, sure.
There are no legal obligations.
manoj
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