The GNU Affero General Public License v3 is now officially an ‘open source’ license, approved by the Open Source Initiative.
Funambol started the approval process of the best license available to protect copyleft, and business based on it, from predatory practices. Fabrizio (Funambol’s CEO) celebrates the sweet victory on his blog mentioning the ‘strange’ coincidence of Google caring only for GPL. For Google the ASP loophole is the key to their business, while they don’t like the A of Affero.
It’s a good day for all the companies that use the AGPLv3. I found some like Wavemaker, OSSDiscovery, Colosa and I wish Palamida started tracking AGPLv3 adoption too (Update: Blackduck Software already tracks AGPLv3 adoption). Here Funambol’s full press release with quote from Wavemaker’s CEO and Eben Moglen.
Update (thanks to Andi Zink):’ Doug Levin’s post contains more software licensed under AGPL.
Black Duck Software is already tracking projects under AGPL on the OSS Resource Center since the release of AGPLv3. You can find the projects at:
http://www.blackducksoftware.com/oss/project-list
There is also some information about AGPL projects here:
http://bduck1.blogspot.com/2008/03/agpl-is-now-osi-approved.html
-Andi
Thanks for the links Andi
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Hi Stefano –
We have been tracking Affero prior to its official release. The issue for me is formatting and displaying the information in a way that is relevant to our current users.
My team and I track use and adoption of all the significant OSS licenses.
Right now, we provide the Affero information as part of our blog updates, but my team and I are making changes to the database so that we can display this as well.
External comments are always welcome on our site, or via email to the team and I at rdgroup@palamida.com.
Regards,
Ernie
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