Tag Archives: agplv3

Ryzom is free as in freedom software

Posted on 6 May, 2010 by Stef

Ryzom is a Massive Multyplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG), a beautiful one, with a very big universe and a lot of users. With the help of FSF, Winch Gate Properties, the copyright holders of Ryzom, released the server and … Continue reading →

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Affero GPL is freedom to the web

Posted on 18 December, 2008 by Stef

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 … Continue reading →

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Moodle ripped off, should switch to Affero GPLv3

Posted on 24 June, 2008 by Stef

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 … Continue reading →

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Give the GNU GPL an ‘A’, as in Affero

Posted on 14 March, 2008 by Stef

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 … Continue reading →

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Affero GNU GPLv3 evaluated by OSI

Posted on 5 February, 2008 by Stef

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 29 December, 2007 by Stef

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 … Continue reading →

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