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SpringSource Team Blog " Open Source, Open Strategy: The SpringSource Manifesto
"We are not changing and will not change the license of any existing project. The Spring Portfolio will remain under the Apache License. This covers the Spring Framework, Spring Security, Spring Web Flow and the rest of the Spring Portfolio."
Make Your Open Source Software GPL-Compatible. Or Else.
Making your OSS/FS software GPL-compatible
Possibilidades do OpenSolaris sob GPLv3.
artigo do começo de 2007 trata das possibilidades do solaris ser licensiado sob a GPLv3.
OSI Board approves GPL v3 and LGPL v3
Very welcome development.
Advice on relicensing from the SFLC
This has cropped up in several places recently (most notably on license-discuss) and the advice here seems sound to my non-lawyer eyes.
Advice on relicensing from the SFLC
This has cropped up in several places recently (most notably on license-discuss) and the advice here seems sound to my non-lawyer eyes.
gplv2/cddl dual-licensing
Stephen's comment on the addition of GPLv2 to NetBeans is fair comment is licenses are all about their terms, but I'm beginning to wonder if that's actually the case.
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Various Licenses and Comments about Them - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
list of free software licences and their compatibility with GPL
Law & Life: Silicon Valley: General Public License Version 3: A Legal View
I believe that the GPLv3 is a very valuable addition to FOSS licenses and solves many of the challenges faced by GPLv2. Companies distributing FOSS should consider it and companies using FOSS should be prepared, in most cases, to accept it.
The GPL and Software as a Service
Closing the SaaS loophole "would have been a death blow for GPLv3, making it impossible to adopt"
Will The Real Open Source CRM Please Stand Up? | Open Source Initiative
Micheal Tieman at OSI blogs about standing up to vendors who abuse the term Open Source for products which have licenses which don't meet the OSI Open Source Definition
Will The Real Open Source CRM Please Stand Up? | Open Source Initiative
Micheal Tieman at OSI blogs about standing up to vendors who abuse the term Open Source for products which have licenses which don't meet the OSI Open Source Definition
Make Your Open Source Software GPL-Compatible. Or Else.
This essay argues that developers of open source software / Free Software (OSS/FS) should use an existing widely-used license compatible with the General Public License (GPL), such as the GPL, LGPL, MIT/X, or BSD-new licenses.
Bob Sutor: GPL v3 In the home stretch
"For our part, we’re pretty satisfied with where we are. "
O'Reilly Radar: GPLv3, Apache License Compatibility
"sounds to me like the FSF really had to stretch to find some terms that might make the Apache License incompatible"
Oh: And I Thought IBM Got It
"At some point you become so shrill and beyond what's required that you lose the audience and the audience moves on to something else .... We don't use the GPL for reasons of its restrictions," Mills said.
GPLv3 draft 3 proposed patch for Apache License compatibility
That's the spirit. +1 on ASL compatibility!
ZDNet: GPL 3 isn’t the ‘last call’
"here are some key changes in the latest GPL draft and how they're designed to target the Microsoft-Novell partnership"
Open-source Alfresco shifts to GPL
Matt escapes the bannerware controversy at OSI. I can sympathise.
Should OpenSolaris Use the GPLv3 License? The Q&A
Going where angels fear to tread (in fact where I twitch a bit) Stephen O'Grady does a good job giving an overview of the story so far on OpenSolaris and GPLv3.
Press Release: Linden Lab To Open Source Second Life Software | Linden Lab
San Francisco, CA – January 8, 2007 – Linden Lab®, creator of 3D virtual world Second Life® (www.secondlife.com), is releasing the code of its Viewer application to the open source software development community. Developers can now access the source
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On the politics and economics of dual-licencing
"One way or the other, FOSS is about contribution. Don’t whine about why you can’t have it for nothing."
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