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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Question about Free Software policies within the openSUSE
From:       Kostas Boukouvalas <boukouvalas () linux ! com>
Date:       2010-12-24 22:42:12
Message-ID: 4D1521C4.8040201 () linux ! com
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Στις 24/12/2010 02:34 πμ, ο/η Brian K. White έγραψε:
>
> Yes if you look you'll see I work for a company that sells software.
> No contradiction. It's not open source but each customer gets the
> source if they buy the software

This _could_ in fact be Free Software. Sometimes someone has to read a 
lot of times the Free Software Definition in order to understand exactly 
what it says. The company _is not obliged_ to share the source code *for 
no money* if they don't want to. But if they give their customers the 
power to do that (meaning to share the code they received along with the 
software binaries they bought) if they want to then it is ok with the 
Freedom #2.

It is not Free Software if the company is the only holder-developer of 
the source code and does not give the source code even if someone pays for.

But I can't really tell for sure because I don't know if the software is 
ok with the other 3 essential freedoms.

Read more at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
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