[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu and Mozilla, the inevitable alliance

Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) jonathan at ubuntu.com
Mon Jan 18 13:28:34 GMT 2010


Hi Charl

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Charl Wentzel
<charl.wentzel at vodamail.co.za> wrote:
> 1. Licenced open source.  Use of the software and code is restricted to
> those who buy it from you.  Once they've bought it from you they can
> modify the code, but customers seldom do as they generally don't have
> the inhouse skills.

You can't actually do that, by definition, if it's open source you
have to make it available free of charge, otherwise it's simply not
open source.

-Jonathan



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