On Tuesday 06 April 2010 12:13 PM, jtd wrote:
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.
They did not say that a certain thing is leagul or not. But they are
doing it indirectly.
Their condition is that money should be used to buy a copy of the
licensed software and since FOSS can be downloaded free of cost, there
is no justification for buying it .
If you say that the money is for only trainning, it means that there was
no purchase of copy of software license.
Besides, there is a common mith that free (and open source ) is not
licenced software in the first place.
I know it souns too stupid but that is the reality with the few amongst
so-called educated people of the uni management.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
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