RE: [ILUG-BOM] Opensource/Free Software and stuff...

Sometime Today, Pillai, Gishu R (GE Energy) assembled some asciibets to say:

Ok methinks it's time to Reply.

Stop top posting man!

I knew the meaning of Open Source... but then I prefer to think of it

And fix your line length. Lines should not be longer than 76 characters.

If you "value" add on to the source and then charge a lil something, then it is quite ok.

It isn't about what's okay and what's not okay, it's about what's legal and what's not. As far as the GPL goes for Free Software, it is perfectly legal to charge any arbitrary amount for Free Software, regardless of what charge you have procured it for. The only legal requirement is that you provide the source code for no EXTRA charge.