Tag Archives: gpl

Nokia and the L of smart freedom

Posted on 14 January, 2009 by Stef

The good news today is that Nokia relicensed the Qt (pr: cute) libraries under the GNU Lesser General Public License, demonstrating that the mobile ecosystem is where things happen. The GNU Lesser GPL is a license that allows non-free and … Continue reading →

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Freedom and privacy in hosted applications

Posted on 5 June, 2008 by Stef

I’m not a big believer of hosted applications mainly because they fail to deliver the ‘run everywhere there is a connection to the internet’ promise. Nonetheless, I’m using hosted apps very often, especially for school papers where I have to … Continue reading →

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The long march of Affero GPLv3

Posted on 30 May, 2008 by Stef

It’s good to read on Palamida weekly reports that the GNU Afferto GPLv3 is being adopted at a fast pace, after I asked OSI to approve it. Considering that Google is passively opposing its adoption, I think that 95 projects … Continue reading →

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