"adit" == adit y <adit> writes:
adit> 1. How long is it going to be free ?
As long as people respect the license, and the legal system is
sufficient to encourage this. Consider donating to support the cause,
for example http://members.fsf.org/ as one way enforcing the Gnu
Public Licenses that are used by much free software (like the Linux
kernel).
Incidentally "Linux" is not "it" - there are many, many software
elements that go into making a Linux system (e.g. the Linux kernel,
the GNU software collection, and many, many other programs from many
other sources).
adit> 2. Is there any possibility of this becoming a copyrighted
adit> software in future ? ( i mean some company taking over and
adit> saying that only i am the owner and only i can make
adit> modifications)
Most of the software is already copyrighted. In many cases the license
of the free software allows companies to "take over" a version of the
software and say "I am the owner of this version, and only I can
modifications." But they can't really do it to all *other* versions
that are already out there, just the one specific version they chose
to claim. That's freedom for you ;-)
Cheers!
Shyamal
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