GNU and FSF News for September 2007
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| Migration to the GPLv3 continues at a steady pace. Palamida's GPLv3
| Information site showed 534 total GPLv3 packages as of August, up from 300 in
| July.
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http://www.advogato.org/article/945.html
Recent:
FSF to Microsoft: "You Can't Declare Yourself Exempt from GPLv3"
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| I'm just a paralegal, but I read that as saying they will litigate, if
| necessary.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070828105447144
Free Software Foundation to Microsoft: You are not above the law
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9767420-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
Related:
GPLv3 picks up traction
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| When the GPLv3 first arrived, only a handful of programs made the shift. The
| most significant of these was Samba making good its promise to move its
| popular Windows-compatible file/print server program to the GPLv3.
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| Since then, according to data collected by Palamida, an IP (intellectual
| property) management company, the GPLv3 is picking up steam. By July 31,
| Palamida found that 277 open-source projects had moved to using the GPLv3. At
| the beginning of the month, only 82 projects, most of them created by the
| Free Software Foundation, which created the GPLv3, had made the switch.
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3553555248.html
GPLv3: past the 5K mark, and going strong
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| 1. Or later – 4708 of 9082 projected – 52%
| 2. LGPLv3 – 30 of 723 projected – 4%
| 3. GPLv3 – 5100 of 13078 projected – 39%
| 4. GPL, not converted – 5086 projected (GPL projects times (100% - 72%
| convert rate))
| 5. Non GPL license – 3722 projected (Active projects – (Active GPL projects +
| not converted))
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| All this in one month.
|
|
| So, what is the summary?
|
| Adoption and projects released under GPLv3 are as expected. The part that is
| often overlooked is the long standing impact of the "or later" clause,
| initially put into effect more than a decade ago as part of the language
| surrounding the GPLv2 License, or later, at the time and now, common among
| GPL licensed projects. This clause in effect guaranteed a wide
| spread "potential" of adoption of the license the day it was released.
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http://gpl3.blogspot.com/2007/08/gplv3-past-5k-mark-and-going-strong.html
Redmond On The Ropes
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| You have my apology. It was necessary to use language in the following
| article that I don't usually use...in print. In private, a twenty-year Marine
| couldn't compete with me...but here, where kids come...you have my apology.
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http://blog.lobby4linux.com/index.php?/archives/245-Redmond-On-The-Ropes.html
GPLv3 report: 30% increase with Sugar on top
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| Of course, if you add in those projects licensed as "GPL v2 or LGPL v2.1 or
| later," then the total swells to 2,990. Not bad.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9751624-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
GPL3 to dominate LinuxWorld
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| Bui-Friday believes that many companies will move to the new licence but only
| at a timely juncture. “It’s very rare that a software project will go through
| the trouble and expense of cutting a new version just for a new licence.
| Typically, what we’ve heard is that the next version they cut they will go
| [with GPL3],” she said.
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http://www.vnunet.com/itweek/news/2195689/gpl3-dominate-linuxworld
Signal and Noise in GPLv3
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| In an email to me last month, Linus Torvalds, who has been portrayed in the
| media as GPLv3's main opponent, describes the language that he and other use
| on the Linux kernel mailing list as "blunt, to the point, and not very
| polite." When journalists quote pieces of it, he notes, often "the context of
| that language is then lost entirely" -- and he adds that "it's not just the
| text of the thread itself that is the context; the context is also how
| technical people discussing things amongst each other is in itself a very
| different context than a trade magazine article."
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3692201
Misleading InformationWeek GPLv3 article
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| Linus's position is clear. He's repeatedly said that he'd use GPLv3 in
| certain situations if there was a practical advantage, but he prefers v2 over
| v3. That's fine. I prefer v3, but v2 is still a great licence.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/misleading_informationweek_gplv3_article
Why does Microsoft seem scared of GPLv3?
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| Microsoft is extremely keen to avoid "legal debate" over whether its recent
| partnerships with Linux firms such as Novell, Xandros, and Linspire, mean
| Redmond must assume any of the new licenses' legal obligations.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Why-does-Microsoft-seem-scared-of-GPLv3-/0,130061733,339279673,00.htm
Microsoft disses GPLv3 (and rocketman Kirk)
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| This is Thursday's IT Blogwatch: in which Microsoft squirms out of GPLv3's
| clutches, perhaps.
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http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/5823
The Badger Game
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| So, by threatening everything and promising nothing (because would Microsoft
| really sue anyone for patents, knowing how many competitors in the Linux
| community have patents of their own?), Microsoft has skillfully managed to
| get open source players to endorse Open XML. A variant of the classic Badger
| Game if I ever heard one.
|
| Faced with cons like this, I am beginning to realize that having something
| like the GPLv3 around is a very good idea. Even though the new GPL could not
| have prevented this scam, it may help in the future.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2007071302826OPMSPB
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