Richard Stallman, Live and Unplugged
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| It’s almost 8 PM on a Tuesday night, and the lecture hall here at Virginia
| Tech University is filled nearly to capacity. The students – many of them
| computer science majors – have come to hear Richard Stallman, the grand
| forefather of GNU/Linux. The crowd is chatty and seems in a good mood.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3737586
Google blocking AGPL in Google Code
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| So, first AGPL was not good enough for Google because it was not
| OSI-approved. That limited its popularity... Now it is OSI-approved. Still,
| it is not popular enough to be accepted in the Google closed open source
| hosting site?
|
| And, by the way, why should people put their open source code in the hands of
| someone who likes open source only when it does good to its business (ehm,
| that could include me, but we are not talking about me, are we ;-) ?
|
| C'mon Chris, give developers the ability of using AGPL for their own projects
| in Google Code. Your fight for no proliferation of licenses is something I
| subscribe to, but AGPL is the license of the future, no matter if Google
| likes it or not. And I can guarantee you it will become even more popular if
| it is accepted in Google Code...
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http://www.funambol.com/blog/capo/2008/03/google-blocking-agpl-in-google-code.html
"If the operating system is in fact a natural monopoly, then what could be
better than having an operating system that nobody owns?"
--James Love
Related:
GPL author: Google must share code
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| Companies like Google that build their business on software such as
| Linux have a moral imperative to contribute back to the free
| software community, a prominent open source advocate said Tuesday.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/052307-gpl-author-google-must-share.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
http://tinyurl.com/2x5dvf
Funambol Helps New AGPLv3 Open Source License Gain Formal OSI Approval
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| March 13, 2008 - Funambol, the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging
| software powered by open source, today announced that the AGPLv3 has received
| formal approval by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Funambol led the process
| of the license's approval by the OSI after adopting AGPLv3 in November. It
| was the first company to adopt the license, which closes the "ASP loophole".
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http://www.linuxpr.com/releases/10466.html
Census started for enterprise open source use
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| Intended as a pluggable architecture for organizations to provide their own
| fingerprint rules and identify open source packages, OSS Discovery is
| licensed under the new Affero GPLv3 (AGPLv3) for open source SaaS.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/12/12/census-started-for-enterprise-open-source-use/
Funambol Is First Major Commercial OpenSource Company To Support AGPLv3
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| Funambol, the leading provider of mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by
| open source, today announced it has adopted GNU AGPLv3. This makes Funambol
| the first major commercial open source software company to adopt the license
| that was just released by the Free Software Foundation. Funambol adopted
| AGPLv3 because the company views it as a major open source license of the
| future.
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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,230442.shtml
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