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Re: [News] GPLv3 Leaps Beyond 1,600 Projects

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> GPL Project Watch List for Week of 02/01
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| As of February 1st our GPL v3 database now contains 1624 GPL v3 projects, as 
>| compared to last weeks figure of 1579 GPL v3 projects.  
> `----
> 
> http://gpl3.blogspot.com/2008/02/gpl-project-watch-list-for-week-of-0201.html
> 
> Big jump.

It will continue to grow, as people recognise the risks of Tivoisation,
which allow commercial companies to treat GPLed code as if it were
BSDed.

> 
> 
> Related:
> 
> Trolltech to adopt GPL 3 for Qt
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Trolltech CEO Haavard Nord announced today at the KDE developer conference 
>| that the company's cross-platform open source Qt application development 
>| toolkit will be released under the GPL 3. This move, which comes shortly 
>| after the release of KDE 4.0 (watch for our review on Sunday night), will 
>| allow the open source desktop environment to adopt the new version of the 
>| GPL.     
> `----
> 
> http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/01/18/trolltech-to-adopt-gpl-3-for-qt


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