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What is Reddit Announcing Tomorrow? And Why Is A Penguin Involved?
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| Social news website Reddit will be making an announcement at its invite-only
| party tomorrow in San Francisco. Invites include the image above, prominently
| featuring a mysterious penguin alongside the company's logo (the alien
| thing). So what are they getting at?
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| Penguins have long been associated with the open-source OS Linux, stemming
| from Linus Torvalds's decision to use one as Linux's mascot (he's named Tux,
| and you can see him here). Could Linux somehow be involved in Reddit's
| announcement?
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/17/AR2008061702259.html
Conde Nast's Reddit goes open-source
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| Reddit, the social news site that publishing giant Conde Nast acquired in
| 2006, has made a big announcement: The site's code, as of Wednesday, is open
| source. It's been released under the Common Public Attribution License
| (CPAL).
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http://www.webware.com/8300-1_109-2.html?keyword=open-source
Recent:
Facebook To Open Source Facebook Platform
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| Sometime soon, perhaps this week, Facebook will turn the year-old Facebook
| Platform into an open source project, multiple sources have told us. The
| immediate effect will be to allow any social network to become Facebook
| Platform compatible - meaning application developers can easily take their
| Facebook applications and have them run on those social networks, too.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/26/facebook-to-open-source-facebook-platform/
Facebook adopts the CPAL poison pill
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| For more traditional software projects, customers derive value from being
| able to modify the source code. But Facebook's customers are unlikely to do
| so, and now its partners (and competitors) won't do so, either. CPAL may make
| sense in some contexts, but I'm not sure this is one of them, unless Facebook
| actually intends for no one to modify its source code....
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9958180-16.html
CPAL? What's That?
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| In other words, if someone builds a web site based on the Facebook code, they
| must make the source code of their modifications available as soon as they
| let users into the site - whether or not they ship their own site code as a
| separate product.
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| One further note about the CPAL: because it's based on the MPL, it is not
| compatible with the GPL. Facebook does not appear to have availed itself of
| the dual-licensing provisions of the CPAL, meaning that any of Facebook's
| CPAL-licensed code cannot legally be linked with GPL code.
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http://ostatic.com/163756-blog/cpalss-whats-thatss
Is Facebook an open source hero or Microsoft clone?
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| Of far more interest to me is Facebook’s attempt to control its open source
| future, mainly under the Common Public Attribution License (the badgeware
| license) approved by the OSI after submission by SocialText.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2505
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