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Freedom and privacy in the cloud: a call for action
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| This is a post about freedom. The freedom to keep your data for yourself and
| the freedom to run free software. You should be able to reclaim and enjoy
| these freedoms also when using web applications.
|
| If you are a supporter of the free software movement, you can easily opt for
| Gimp instead of Photoshop, or Firefox instead of Internet Explorer. You can
| also protect the privacy of your data by using the many encryption tools that
| are available (GPG, TrueCrypt, …). But when it comes to web applications
| things get complicated.
|
| [...]
|
| 1. Choose AGPL
|
| Why is AGPL important? Because it means that, if you are an application
| service provider and your services are based on software with an AGPL
| license, you have to make the source code available to anyone that uses the
| service! FSF guidelines suggest to add a “Source” link that leads users to an
| archive of the code right into the web application interface.
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http://www.clipperz.com/users/marco/blog/2008/05/30/freedom_and_privacy_cloud_call_action
More Than One Way to Measure Usefulness
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| In a recent post, IT Business Edge’s Ann All surmised that former Google
| employee Sergey Solyanik probably didn’t make many friends among the open
| source faithful when he said:
|
| I need to know that the code is useful for others, and the only way to
| measure the usefulness is by the amount of money that the people are
| willing to part with to have access to my work.
|
| [...]
|
| The open source developers I know are also motivated by users and the
| usefulness of their work. They don’t just use money as the only indicator of
| their worth, especially since the money earned for software in this example
| is earned more from monopoly advantage than superior technology or true
| customer choice. If you’re a developer, how much more satisfying is it to
| know someone chose your software because they liked it and not only because
| it came bundled with their PC?
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http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/osb/?p=406
Recent:
AGPLv3 Keeps Open Source Vibrant in Age of SaaS
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| For all practical purposes, the AGPLv3 is a key advance for everyone involved
| in open source, regardless of if you are a software developer, Internet end
| user or enterprise end user. The AGPLv3 closes the ASP loophole and keeps the
| freedom of open source software alive, in the age of SaaS and hosted
| applications.
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https://fossbazaar.org/?q=content/agplv3-keeps-open-source-vibrant-age-saas
Google pays for Affero ban
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| The projects will join around 10 other AGPL-licensed efforts on SourceForge,
| compared to six on Google Code. Before the defections, Google had been
| discouraging other AGPL projects, saying Google Code does not support AGPL.
|
| The dispute between Google and developers who want to use AGPL - a version of
| GPLv3 tailored for use in software as a service - has rumbled on since last
| November, when AGPL was finalized.
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/04/11/google_bans_aero/
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
GPL Project Watch List for Week of 06/13
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| This week our GPL v3 count is at 2592 GPL v3 projects, and increase of 59 GPL
| v3 projects. There was speculation as to whether the AGPL v3 would draw
| projects from the GPL v3 conversion rates, but this does not seem to be
| happening. The AGPL v3 count is up 7 projects bringing it to 109 AGPL v3
| projects. The LGPL v3 number is at 251 LGPL v3 projects, up 9 projects from
| last week.
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http://gpl3.blogspot.com/2008/06/gpl-project-watch-list-for-week-of-0613.html
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