[Ilugc] Know your 'GPL' Friend and the 'EULA' Enemy in Education!
- From: baskar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Baskar Selvaraj)
- Date: Sat Mar 22 10:37:53 2008
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From: Arun Khan <knura@xxxxxxxxx>
To: ILUG-C <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Know your 'GPL' Friend and the 'EULA' Enemy in Education!
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:23:13 +0530
On Friday 21 Mar 2008, Baskar Selvaraj wrote:
Now, I am preparing an article on
Know Your 'GPL' Friend and the 'EULA' Enemy in Education
If anyone could provide me with some valuable information on the
topic mentioned above, it would be helpful
It is hard to figure out you have in mind (at least for me) just going
by the title. A one para. exec. summary would give us an idea of the
article's objective.
Almost every student who install or use any proprietry/copyright software in
his own PC or in college comes across some kind of EULA agreement, and without
reading through or understanding about those strict licenses, they start using
the softwares (The most common example being Winzip, used by every windows user
has a strict licensing terms)
In many of my awareness programme, many students have raised questions, why
they need to bother about licensing, when they just need softwares for their
use.
I have explained them, the softwares they use follow very strict licensing
terms, sometimes called as EULA and those softwares don't give them any freedom
in use/copy/redistribute/modify. As a student, they should be knowing about
their rights when using softwares also, and the General Public License (GPL)
was created keeping this in mind and to know about the essentials of software
freedom.
I strongly feel and realise that every student who use computer should really
know about what is GPL and EULA licenses mean and it is even much more
important than knowing Linux or other.
Baskar
-- Arun Khan
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