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Reports on the Death of the GPL …
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| … are greatly exaggerated.
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| It’s funny, from my small corner of the world it seems like the GPL is under
| attack of late. First, back in March, esr questioned the usefulness of the
| license. And now a lot of discussion has built up around a post by Benjamin
| Black comparing the GPL to DRM. Since I am nothing if not fashionable, I felt
| I should throw my opinion into the mix.
|
| I have to disagree with Mr. Black’s premise that
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| it [the GPL] acts as a virus to force the release of ever more source.
| the gpl serves to rigidly control what you can and cannot do with
| software covered by it, and is thus the license equivalent of digital
| rights management
|
| The GPL is a rather simple license, and I don’t view its requirement that
| changes to GPL’d code must also be GPL’d as “rigidly controlling” what one
| does with it. I can run GPL’d code on any device I want. I can modify GPL’d
| code any way I want. I am free to do whatever I want with GPL’d code as long
| as any changes I make are given to whomever I share the code. Heck, if I
| don’t share the code the license doesn’t apply, since it is based on the
| making of copies (copyright) and not possession.
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http://blogs.opennms.org/?p=1018
Integration Watch: The need to expand open-source licensing
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| It’s fair to say that while OSI certification is meaningful, the absence of
| it means very little. To avoid this, the OSI needs to change its licensing
| procedure.
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http://www.sdtimes.com/INTEGRATION_WATCH_THE_NEED_TO_EXPAND_OPEN_SOURCE_LICENSING/By_ANDREW_BINSTOCK/About_OPENSOURCE/33613
Recent:
Why the GNU GPL Still Matters
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| The other major bone of contention in the discussion about the merits and
| demerits of the GNU GPL concerns the issue of efficiency: that is, what is
| the best way to encourage coders to join projects and for users to adopt
| software. But this, too, if based on a misunderstanding of free software: the
| point of free software is not to spread software, but to spread freedom.
|
| It is not trying to be “efficient”, it is trying to be ethical; ideally you
| want both – and in many respects, the culture that the GNU GPL fosters is
| extremely efficient, for reasons I'll discuss in a moment. But if efficiency
| and ethics clash, ethics win every time.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2359&blogid=14
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