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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.

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“Commercial” is not the opposite of Free-Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS)

By using the term "commercial" as a synonym for "closed-source", we are impeding the acceptance of open-source software into the corporate community.

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“Commercial” is not the opposite of Free-Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS)

By using the term "commercial" as a synonym for "closed-source", we are impeding the acceptance of open-source software into the corporate community.

License:GPL: del.icio.us tag/gpl

Microsoft-Novell peace deal could create two-tier Linux market - Computer Business Review

Microsoft try and spread more FUD but it looks like they're in breach of the GPL.

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Torvalds "fed up" with the FSF

On Friday Several kernel developers issued a position paper criticizing the GPLv3 drafts. That prompted Software Freedom Law Center (SLFC) chairman Eben Moglen to issue a "renewed invitation" yesterday to kernel developers to participate in the GPLv3 proc

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IT Manager's Journal | 10 common misunderstandings about the GPL

The GNU General Public License (GPL) is one of the most widely used software licenses -- and, undoubtedly, the most misunderstood. Some of this misunderstanding comes from hostile propaganda, but some also comes from a lack of experience in licensing issu

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IT Manager's Journal | 10 common misunderstandings about the GPL

The GNU General Public License (GPL) is one of the most widely used software licenses -- and, undoubtedly, the most misunderstood. Some of this misunderstanding comes from hostile propaganda, but some also comes from a lack of experience in licensing issu

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Does dual licensing threaten free software? | Linux Journal

Today, an increasingly-favored approach is to employ dual licensing to create two revenue streams: one based on providing services for free software and the other through traditional commercial licenses to products that are generally based on the free sof

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Open source licensing, Part 2: Academic v. reciprocal

And at least according to Linus Torvalds, the creator and chief architect of Linux, code linked against GPL code -- say, against libavl, the GNU library for balanced binary trees -- isn't subject to reciprocity, either.

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