On Monday 05 April 2010 22:44:57 Krishnakant Mane wrote: > On Monday 05 April 2010 10:22 PM, jitendra wrote: > > There is nothing surprising about it. > > jitendra > > I had a similar problem in RUIA. > Although it was not the same authority, but the management was > unwilling to migrate the Self Vision Center for blind to GNU/Linux > because they don't have to buy the Orca screen reader. Upon > probing of some known people in the Management, I came to know that > they have got grant from the Univercity under strict order that the > money be used on *purchasing* licensed copy of Jaws for Blind. > > However most of the management is well convinced about free > software and I have been educating them for last 6 months to get > this working. The work-arround they found out is a really good > hack. > They are going to purchase Orca (gpl never disallows selling of > software). And will be including in the quotation that services > have been provided along with setup of the machines. > Further more they will also take up maintainance contracts for > their machines. > So this is how it got managed in Ruia, where I am just starting to > train faculties who will teach blind students. > They are indeed going to buy software, but along with service. And > as far as the license issue goes, they claim to have resolved it by > Proving to the univercity that The General Public License is indeed > a "leagul " document and that it allows selling (and consiquently > buying ) free software. >
Since when did uni officials become interpreters of the law. It's only the courts who have the jurisdiction. Anyone claiming illegality of a licence will have to go to court to prove that. -- Rgds JTD _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
