Archive for the tag 'agplv3'

Dec 18 2008

Affero GPL is freedom to the web

Published by Stef under community, eng, fsf

Savio questions the usefulness of AGPL and his argument seems very slippery to me. He questions whether the Affero GPL is an obstacle to the development of more free/libre open source software.’  He uses Facebook as an example company that is contributing back modifications to memcached, software that FB uses after having it heavily modified [...]

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Jun 24 2008

Moodle ripped off, should switch to Affero GPLv3

Published by Stef under business, community

Roberto reports about the Lazio e-Citizen project chose Moodle to deliver courses to educate elderly citizens (age 60 and more) to use computers and Internet, but they don’t say that openly.’  I found it offensive, that AICA and all the other groups involved in the project failed not only to give credit to the Moodle [...]

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Mar 14 2008

Give the GNU GPL an ‘A’, as in Affero

Published by Stef under business, eng, funambol

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’ [...]

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Feb 05 2008

Affero GNU GPLv3 evaluated by OSI

Published by Stef under eng, funambol

As Fabrizio reported, Funambol submitted the Affero GNU’  GPLv3 to the Open Source Initiative for approval (it was my first task as Funambol Community Manager).’  OSI’s stamp on AGPLv3 makes business sense for Funambol, afaik the first big free software project to adopt AGPLv3 as soon as it was announced. Open Source is a recognized [...]

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Dec 29 2007

Six months of GPLv3: a chat with Ernest Park of Palamida

Published by Stef under eng

Six months ago Free Software Foundation released the third version of the most widely adopted free software license, the GNU GPL version 3. To track adoption of the new license, Palamida started a project with the aim
to build a unified view of the status of GPLv3 and LGPLv3 adoption and usage across the [...]

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