Papers by Mudasir Kirmani
The mammoth user base of Information Technology is still growing at rapid pace with the advent of... more The mammoth user base of Information Technology is still growing at rapid pace with the advent of Internet. Every user is accessing software to cater to different needs, but most of them are not aware of the software licensing mechanism, the disadvantages of using “traditional proprietary” software and freedom of using Free and Open Source Software License. In this paper we studied different software license: proprietary, copyright, copyleft, freeware,GNU General Public License, the problems associated with “traditional proprietary software” and the freedom of Free and Open Source Software License. The goal of this paper is to highlight the importance of Software Freedom. We also aim to clarify how FOSS licensing is both similar to and different from “traditional proprietary” software licensing.
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Papers by Mudasir Kirmani