Abhishek
Member • Jul 26, 2013
What's Your Opinion On Licensing Software Under GPL ver.2 ?
GPL also known as General Public License. GPLv2 is copyleft license.
Now I will try to elaborate a bit more using software Linux Kernel (yeah kernel is a software):
Linux Kernel is licensed under GPL v2 which means I can get the copy of the Kernel, modify it, add few features & SELL IT at any price, but the great thing is, the same right you have to give it to recipient. They can modify even more & can sell to other. When you sell, you have to give the source code to recipient alongwith binaries. You have to retain copyright notices by original author so you can't claim that the entire code is written by you.
I would like to know the opinion from all CEans about this license. What your opinion about this copyleft licensing ?
On Side note : You know, many CS/IT students struggle to develop last year project. You can simply use the original source code, modify it to very large extent,add few more addons, add more function, add more features, fix it,etc,etc, Mail & tell to the original developer, he will help you even more if he like what you're doing & your project can be dope enough to make your faculty fall in love for you! There are so many Opensource projects which are quite awesome.
Now I will try to elaborate a bit more using software Linux Kernel (yeah kernel is a software):
Linux Kernel is licensed under GPL v2 which means I can get the copy of the Kernel, modify it, add few features & SELL IT at any price, but the great thing is, the same right you have to give it to recipient. They can modify even more & can sell to other. When you sell, you have to give the source code to recipient alongwith binaries. You have to retain copyright notices by original author so you can't claim that the entire code is written by you.
I would like to know the opinion from all CEans about this license. What your opinion about this copyleft licensing ?
On Side note : You know, many CS/IT students struggle to develop last year project. You can simply use the original source code, modify it to very large extent,add few more addons, add more function, add more features, fix it,etc,etc, Mail & tell to the original developer, he will help you even more if he like what you're doing & your project can be dope enough to make your faculty fall in love for you! There are so many Opensource projects which are quite awesome.