BangPypers

Some LDTP devloper who i just can recall as Ravi Shankar from Anna Universty, (a final year Linux desktop testing devloper) had a few words of contribution at our college on the AULug meet today.Fact is we got to know some stuff on GPL ,Copyleft LGPL and other kind of BSDL was just paced up.Jolted up but could not see what a GPL enforcemnt could stand up for?

Is the GPL legally enforceable? The short & long answer is ‘no’. Indian law is damn specific in that no contract/license is legally enforceable in a court of law if it is not backed by consideration. About Consideration it’s legalese for money in cash or kind. So if I write an application, license it under GPL and you use it, I can always cancel the license and prevent you from using it, even if you have not violated and provision of the license. You have no remedy in court. But if you violate any of the conditions, I have a remedy in court – not based on GPL, but based on copyright. Heads I win, tails you lose. On the other hand, EULA’s backed by consideration are enforceable both ways. And since the fundamental principles of law are the same the world over, this holds good in most jurisdictions. So it it necessary to spend much time on refining the GPL?

And a simple summary of today’s seminar was GPL – you do your jogging and modification while your stuff is gonna be really a FOSS one.The user of the GPLed software is making a promise to bundle the source code along with the software when he is distributing it/its derivative work, is not that the consideration of this contract between the creator/copyright owner and the user,and with regards to LGPL(Copyleft) you gotta stuff your work based on the legal dirs and that you take up from some GPL libraries for professional works.And with regards to the license you must not change the codes you borrowed from.In BSDL some fellow from Breckly University seems busy doing up his kind of service to contirbute in some licenses up.

The title just seems bit irrelvant to the context but this lug seems to be a very active group up the parts in banglore as BangPypers · Bangalore Python Users Group (BPUG).Just hoped it made a humourous sense.

Further got much inspired by google’s free source code section. Heard the buzz slogan – Make new versions : Release early & Release Often.Hope to join the run on soon. Some good link to start up with code.google.com/hosting/ on the popular search engine.