Dear Mr. Indranil Das Gupta I don't want to comment about your understanding about my understanding, and i know you have much knowledge about koha than me because development part of koha may be business for you i just devoting very little time in a layman style to use koha for Library domain only. I did not said using it for financial benefit is wrong (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html), but sharing in any form should also not to be pointed out.
Thanking You On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 17:19:47 +0530 wrote >Dear Vinod, On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Vinod Kumar Mishra wrote: So what good things can be done with koha you can share because several people do not share and using koha for huge financial benefits. No offense but your understanding of GPLv3 is sightly misplaced. :-) Freedom 0 : the freedom to use the software for any purpose That includes, hold you breathe, *commercial* purposes as well. It is free as in freedom, not as in free mangoes. As we from FSF's India chapter say "Mukt not Muft". Koha from it earliest Katipo days have been written in large measures via end-user sponsored/funded development. And yet it has remained true to Free Software philosophy rather than descending into open core. LibLime (Metavore) and its subsequent owner PTFS attempted that, but it resulted in a fork, as the global community rejected the open core approach. cheers -idg -- Indranil Das Gupta Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog : http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org With regards, Vinod Kumar Mishra, Assistant Librarian, Biju Patnaik Central Library, NIT Rourkela, Mob:91+9439420860 91+6612462103 (O) email: [email protected] : [email protected] _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org [email protected] http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
