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deusx : One Way in which Habari Absolutely Slaughters WordPress - Asymptomatic - "I am not the only person who has noticed that WordPress is released under the GNU General Public License. In the license, it very plainly states: You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is de
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14 month ago
Linkorama : Open Source Unlocks IT? - Open source is truly the best way to unlock the value of information technology, Michael Tiemann, president of the Open Source Initiative, said at the annual Gartner Open Source Summit here Sept. 20.
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16 month ago
Linkorama : Stop Whining: Let's All Be (C)PALS - So far wiki vendor Socialtext, which originally submitted the license for OSI approval, ERP vendor Xtuple and Java integration vendor MuleSource have all become CPAL users. Collaboration vendor Zimbra may soon be next.
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16 month ago
Linkorama : OSI Prez confronts irate users over 'badgerware' - We've taken the liberty of dubbing CPAL a badgerware license in honor of Socialtext's fluffy nature. (e.d.: Mushroom! Mushroom!)
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16 month ago
Linkorama : CPAL 1.0 - Certified language, posted on the OSI site, the full license
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16 month ago
Linkorama : The 21st century's best open-source license? - Matt Asay on OSL, of which CPAL borrows its External Deployment clause. But I think it is a strength for CPAL to allow reuse of minor work without attribution, not a weakness.
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16 month ago
Linkorama : What does CPAL mean and how did it get approved? - Matt Asay: Hence, more than anything else, I personally believe that the Free Software Foundation's GPLv3 provided cover for CPAL to get approved, which has shifted views on attribution more than anything else. Or maybe everyone just got tired of debating
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16 month ago
Linkorama : Microsoft to Submit Shared Source Licenses to OSI - Hey, if Socialtext can do it, maybe Microsoft can to
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17 month ago
Linkorama : OSI Approves Attribution - After months of back and forth between open source vendors, the OSI and pundits in the blogosphere, it's great to see that common sense prevailed. Congrats to all those who persevered to make this happen. And now we can get back to more important issues..
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17 month ago
Linkorama : SugarCRM trades badgeware for GPL 3 - "There's peace on earth," Roberts said.
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17 month ago
Linkorama : OSI approves 'badgeware' license - I was rather oddly quoted in this piece, but that is the Register style
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17 month ago
Linkorama : Launch of GNU GPLv3 - On Friday, June 29, at 12 noon (EDT), the Free Software Foundation will officially release the GNU GPL version 3.
factoryjoe : Launch of GNU GPLv3 - On Friday, June 29, at 12 noon (EDT), the Free Software Foundation will officially release the GNU GPL version 3. Please join us in celebration as we bring to a close eighteen months of public outreach and comment, in revision of the wor
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18 month ago
Linkorama : For Approval: Common Public Attribution License (CPAL) - Submission to OSI's License-Discuss
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18 month ago
Linkorama : Centric CRM responds to OSI hard line - Following the response by SocialText to Michael Tiemann’s announcement of a new hard line approach to the use of the term “open source”, Centric CRM has now also responded.
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18 month ago
Linkorama : Socialcalc update - Tony Bowden on licensing and releasing. I'd clarify more about CPAL and that Socialtext isn't the vendor that "pursued both lines of attack" although I should be nice and not mention them by name.
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18 month ago
Linkorama : Open source by any other name - While the company is committed to using an OSI-approved license it would prefer to have the OSI approve the CPAL. In the meantime, Mayfiled admits to be having an identity crisis:
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Linkorama : Google must share code - Says GPL author, but only community pressure will make it so. But Chris Dibona says they increased contributions over the last two months since getting a contributor agreement worked out with FSF
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21 month ago
Linkorama : EnterpriseDB is/n't Open Source - It is if under an OSI-approved Licensed
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22 month ago
Linkorama : Linkslaver on open licensing - As Cory Doctorow says, 99.9% of those who haven't paid you have never heard of you. Because you haven't released your code nobody knows about it and you aren't in demand as a famous C++ guru.
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Linkorama : Open Warfare in Open Source - Disagreements over what should be included in the free software license's next version have pitted the movement's leaders against each other
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Linkorama : "no military use" GPL clause - "We are software developers who dedicate part of our free time to open source development. The fact is that open source is used by the military industry. Open source operating systems can steer warplanes and rockets. [This] patch should make clear to user
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38 month ago
Linkorama : New Source Licenses from Microsoft - They are clearly getting closer and closer to a tipping point. Let's encourage them to go all the way! Be nice.
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