[Ilugc] Mr. Baskar of LinuXpert Systems' interview in Kalaignar TV y'day

[amachu at amachu.net]

On 18.04.2012 18:01, Baskar Selvaraj wrote:
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>> I had only one major correction for him - he used the phrase 
>> 'Copyrighted Software' to describe 'Proprietary Software'. I felt he 
>> should've stuck to Proprietary itself;
>
> I agree that, in the 2nd part I have used the term Copyright software
> few times to mean the  proprietary software.
>
> The below quote from www.gnu.org would justify why I have used the
> term copyright software for proprietary software.
>
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/
>
> "Proprietary software developers use copyright to take away the 
> users'
> freedom; we use copyright to guarantee their freedom. That's why we
> reverse the name, changing “copyright” into “copyleft.”
>

I am afraid that is a wrong interpretation.

Its only because free software (GPL+) by virtue of claiming copyright 
only (calling it copyleft), is able to say that the receiver should also 
act in similar a way.