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Google's open source problem is Affero

Google's open source problem is AfferoOrly?So, if I understand things correctly from the linked article and this, Affero would require Google to release their source code updates for software that runs the [i]services[/i] they sell, not just for compiled software packages as under the current Affero?In the case of the...

Tags: Mac-user, Affero, F/OSS, open source, AGPL, Google Inc., source code

Discussion threads 2008-05-09

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GPL's cloudy future

One of the things about getting older is that you learn to ignore things until you have to do something about them. It's a learned efficiency, I suppose, rationing your increasingly precious time out to the unceasing demands upon it. I finally realized I have to do some serious thinking...

Tags: Software, GPL, Cloud Computing, Free Software Foundation, BSD, Free Software, Affero GPL, AGPL, Open Source, Jeremy Allison

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Europe gets its own GPL

Europe now has its own version of the GPL. It's got copyleft, but it lacks the extra language found in GPLv3 meant to enforce that concept. The European Union Public License is an effort by EU government services to codify a Euro-centric view of copyleft,...

Tags: GPL, OSI, License, European Union Public License, EUPL, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-03-20

Addressing software freedom in cloud computing

Is the freedom torch passing from Richard Stallman to the next generation? Bradley Kuhn of the Software Freedom Conservancy opened the Southern California Linux Expo this year with a keynote about software as a service and user freedoms. Richard Stallman, a man who has done much in...

Tags: Software, Software-as-a-service, Richard Stallman, Software Freedom, Tools & Techniques, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Managed Hosting, Management, Emerging Technologies, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2009-02-22

Stallman vs. the cloud computing tidal wave

Stallman's recent statements regarding his dislike of "cloud computing" didn't surprise me in the least, given what I understand about his software preferences. In fact, I think this is less about Stallman's worry about the security implications of cloud computing, and more about his desire for a software ecosystems that adheres...

Tags: Software, GPL, Cloud Computing, Stallman, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-10-01

Epidemic surveillance under open source

Utah will soon implement a new infectious disease reporting system licensed under the Affero GPL. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Utah, TriSano, Healthcare, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-09-16

News to know: Facebook; OpenOffice; Firefox; RIM

Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: Firefox 3 RC1 code complete, due in late May Joe McKendrick: Is anyone ready to process a trillion events per day? Tom Foremski: Informatica is on the block say senior sources Michael Krigsman: Hosted...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Facebook, OpenOffice, Research In Motion Ltd., Mozilla Firefox, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Microsoft Windows XP, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-12

Google's open source problem is Affero

The best open source protection for "the cloud," as Gordon Haff notes today, is the Affero GPL license. (Picture from our Tech Republic's GeekEnd blog, written by Jay Garmon.) Affero closes the "ASP loophole" described by Fabrizio Capobianco here in March. It defines what SaaS delivers as...

Tags: Google Inc., ClipperZ, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-09

Will the GPL be overtaken by AGPL?

Version 3 of the Affero GPL was approved by the OSI last week, leading one of its advocates to suggest it should become the most popular version over time. (Picture from last October's VentureCamp for Blognation.) As the software industry increasingly moves to a Software as a...

Tags: Software, GPL, OSI, Loophole, Capobianco, Tools & Techniques, Open Source, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-17

News to know: Firefox 3 coming; TomorrowNow shakeup; HP; Kindle

Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: Firefox 3 Beta 1 to be released. Larry Dignan: SAP: TomorrowNow for sale, execs resign. Dennis Howlett: TomorrowNow in turmoil: quo vadis 3PM? Ed Bott: Are you prepared for holiday PC repairs? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: PCs - How...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, Hewlett-Packard Co., Mainsoft, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., TomorrowNow, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2007-11-20

Final version of GPL Affero license is out

Final version of GPL Affero license is outI think that it was smart to let the GPL3 be extended within limits. Thislets Affero add the necessary restrictions to make sure that users have to hand over changes when they go public with a website.

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, GPL Affero, GPL

Discussion threads 2007-11-19

Final version of GPL Affero license is out

The final version of the GPL Affero license, Version 3.0, has been released. The Affero license is designed for network use, and is often used in Software as a Service systems where open source is used. The Free Software Foundation, emphasized in a statement...

Tags: GPL, Source Code, Server, Software As A Service (SaaS), Open Source, Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-11-19

Is SaaS legitimate open source?

Is SaaS legitimate open source?Is Google evil?Thanks Dana,I wondering how long it was going to take for someone to see through this scam. "Hypocrite" was the correct choice of words. Here's my view:The Tip of the Iceberg Google's "do no evil" slogan sucked in millions and millions of people worldwide....

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), open source, software-as-a-service, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-08-22

Is SaaS legitimate open source?

A commenter on one of my recent posts mentioned a Software as a Service SaaS "loophole."The idea is that you use open source code, add your own proprietary bits to it, and then sell the resulting service without contributing your own code back. Google does this a lot.There is a GPL...

Tags: GPL, Web, Software-as-a-service, Web 2.0, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-08-22

Has Google become evil in the eyes of open source?

Has Google become evil in the eyes of open source?Google is on the right sidebecause they sponsor the OSS community and make M$ bleed in the search field.Maybe they're both evil in their own ways?I don't think Google intentionally does "evil," at least as it relates to open source. ...

Tags: Google Inc., open source, FLOSS, FLOSS community

Discussion threads 2007-08-21

Children of GPL

In all the hubbub over GPL Version 3, a lot of you may not know this is just one license that the Free Software Foundation manages. (The image stood at the top of Georg Greve's Brave Gnu World columns from 1999-2004.)They also manage the LGPL, or the Lesser GPL. A...

Tags: Software as a Service, Legal, General, FOSS, Software Licensing, GPL

Blog posts 2007-04-06

Torvalds trashes EU patent proposal

Torvalds trashes EU patent proposalTorvalds is right!I hope Europe doesn't make the same mistake that the U.S. has made. Software patents in th U.S. have created a situation in which programmers cannot risk writing code unless they are in the employ and under the protection of large corporations.Software patents stifle...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Development tools, GPL, patent, software patent, software, OSS, programmer, Torvalds

Discussion threads 2004-11-23

Look for a new GPL in 2005

According to this piece, we might be seeing a new version of the GNU General Public License GPL in 2005. This new revision of the GPL is supposed to cover areas that weren't addressed by the current version of the GPL, such as patents and Web services. On one hand,...

Tags: GPL

Blog posts 2004-11-23