Closing OpenSource

[Scott Vierge]

Hello,

Am attempting to close OpenSource for the personal Ubuntu System. Can a person help?

Many thanks.

[mips]

Huh? How do you close opensource? What do you mean?

If you mean you want to change the license conditions of the GPL then no you can't. Rather look at stuff developed under the BSD/MIT license.

[2F4U]

+1
The GPL is constructed such that you can't do that.

[imagecko]

Hello,

Am attempting to close OpenSource for the personal Ubuntu System. Can a person help?

Many thanks.

Just me not understands this?

[Double.J]

+1
The GPL is constructed such that you can't do that.

+1, Just look at Red Hat trying to slow down Oracles' cloning of their "enterprise" OS.. In a closed source model Red Hat would be able to sue Oracle for cloning the code - you'd have to use what I believe is called "clean room" reverse engineering to avoid the suit - a bit like react OS. Though thank heavens Red Hat do release their source and research!

In terms of the legality of changing from the GPL to the BSD license - We don't really know for sure yet! We know that Google knew they couldn't change the whole system they had over to the BSD or they would have done it.. the fact that they chose to use an BSD licence for the bits that they changed is an area of hot debate, and only court decisions are really going to tell us where the law falls on this.

[shad0w_walker]

There is a key thing you need to do here. Clarify what you're trying to do. From the sounds of it you're trying to fork and close source a GPL project. Don't go there, it will get you sued.

If that's not what you're trying to do, explain in a little more detail.

[BrokenKingpin]

Hello,

Am attempting to close OpenSource for the personal Ubuntu System. Can a person help?

Many thanks.

Um... what?

[Scott Vierge]

Hola,
The reason for the original post apperteines local dsl
service wherein the service is AT&T & AT&T is rather suggesting
to not support Unix systems even though AT&T is primarily
operated with Unix Servers. So the suggestion apperteines
effort to privatize & conceal system so the internet service
is not constantly intermittent. Am fairly certain from calls
priori with reference to system specs has caused the attention
to the system & am maybe worried overmuch about security with
few options. And rather gracias for the assistance Ubuntu!

[lisati]

In before others: Linux isn't Unix.

[xyzzyman]

Hola,
The reason for the original post apperteines local dsl
service wherein the service is AT&T & AT&T is rather suggesting
to not support Unix systems even though AT&T is primarily
operated with Unix Servers. So the suggestion apperteines
effort to privatize & conceal system so the internet service
is not constantly intermittent. Am fairly certain from calls
priori with reference to system specs has caused the attention
to the system & am maybe worried overmuch about security with
few options. And rather gracias for the assistance Ubuntu!

So your local AT&T DSL says they don't support unix/linux? Most ISP's aren't going to provide support unless you're on Windows or Mac. Doesn't mean it won't work, they just won't walk you through issues, and even if it's a hardware failure on their end they usually won't walk through diagnosing it unless you're on a Windows/Mac system that their tech support is trained to handle. It isn't that the OS is open or closed source, it's just they don't provide support for the 1% or 2% on other OS's.

If you had a major dedicated trunk line into your business, then things may be different as you'd be dealing with another tech support group, but you would also be paying for it with your monthly bill.