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An alternative to Dual Licensing
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| In a previous post, we have made our point that dual licensing was unfair and
| community debilitating.
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| In a search for a better solution, I met this weekend with Ludovic Dubost
| CEO, Founder and original contributor of XWiki. XWiki.com is making its
| income out of enterprise support, software guarantees and integration
| projects. This last part being a substantial source of revenues for XWiki.com
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| In January 2006 Ludovic faced an important decision: at that time, XWiki was
| a GNU GPL project with a reasonably growing community but because of it
| Ludovic was loosing integrations/outsourcing contracts. Some of his
| potentially largest customers were not comfortable with the GNU GPL.
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http://blog.milkingthegnu.org/2008/05/an-alternative.html
The problem:
"Good enough" ethics and "good enough" open source
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| The Journal defined "ethics" broadly as "socially responsible," and then set
| about trying to determine just how socially responsible consumers demand of a
| company before they'll take their business elsewhere...
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9943296-16.html
Another one joins the family...
Fusis Group joins Open Source Consortium
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| Fusis Group has announced that they have joined the trade association for the
| open source industry, the Open Source Consortium (OSC).
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http://www.prurgent.com/2008-05-13/pressrelease11473.htm
Recent:
Do we need to protect open source from the cloud?
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| Some view this as a simple loophole to be plugged. The GPL was originally
| written very much within the context of Unix programmatic and operating
| system interfaces. Therefore, the reasoning goes, the only reason the GPL
| didn't encompass access via Web services is that there were no Web
| services--at least in anything like their current form--when the GPL was
| created. That the new GPLv3 specifically doesn't address this "loophole"
| either was more a matter of practicality than principle by this view.
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| And, in fact, one approach to eliminating this loophole is a straightforward
| enough approach. The Affero GPL is a straightforward extension to the GPLv3
| license that essentially expands the definition of distribution to encompass
| the delivery of services over the network.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9939131-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog
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