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On the fall and rise of the GNU GPL
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| If we assume that Web applications and
| cloud computing played a significant role
| in the proportional decline of the GPLv2,
| we would expect to see a significant rise
| in the use of the AGPLv3. While the use of
| the AGPLv3 has indeed risen 16% between
| June 2009 and today, in real terms the rise
| is from 198 projects to 231 â still an
| insignificant amount compared to the GPLv2.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2010/03/16/on-the-fall-and-rise-of-the-gnu-gpl/
Is Your Support of Copyleft Logically Consistent?
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| Obviously, I don't believe in angels
| myself. But, Clarence's (admittedly naÃve)
| logic is actually impeccable: Either you
| believe in angels or you don't. If you
| believe in angels, then you shouldn't be
| surprised to (at least occasionally) see
| one.
|
| This film quote came to my mind in
| reference to a concept in GPL enforcement.
| Many people give lip service to the idea
| that the GPL, and copyleft generally, is a
| unique force that democratizes software and
| ensures that FLOSS cannot be exploited by
| proprietary software interests. Many of
| these same people, though, oppose GPL
| enforcement when companies exploit GPL'd
| code and don't give the source code and
| take away users' rights to modify and share
| that software.
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http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2010/03/15/gpl-consistency.html
Ex-Sun open source honcho: Sorry about that TCK license, Apache!
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| Among the many high-level Sun people
| leaving the merged Oracle-Sun conglomerate
| is Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps,
| who announced his departure on his blog
| last week. (Side note: Is Chief X Officer
| the new Vice President? They sure seem to
| be proliferating!) It was the sort of
| expected combo of pride and wistful
| regrets, and (as is probably the intent)
| it's not that easy to tell whether he's
| leaving voluntarily or not. Still, the most
| interesting bit, as one might expect, was
| one of his regrets, offered in passing:
| "I'm sad that Apache did not get the TCK
| license they requested."
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http://www.javaworld.com/community/?q=node/4155
Recent:
CA3DE renamed to CAFU becomes opensource
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| All source code has been put under the GNU
| General Public License version 3 (GPLv3). The
| GPLv3 guarantees that from now on, Cafu is and
| will always be free software in the spirit of
| the Free Software Foundation.
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http://www.devmaster.net/news/index.php?storyid=2391
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