Dec
18
2008
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 [...]
Tags: affero, agplv3, community, fsf, gplv3
Jun
24
2008
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 [...]
Tags: agplv3, asp, business, copyleft, ecitizen, free software business, moodle, saas, services
Mar
14
2008
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’ [...]
Tags: agplv3, asp, business, copyleft, free software business, google, saas, services
Feb
05
2008
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 [...]
Tags: agplv3, free software business, funambol, osi
Dec
29
2007
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 [...]
Tags: adoption, agplv3, gplv3, interview, palamida