* The GPL Has No (Networked) Future
posted by Thom Holwerda on Fri 30th Mar 2007 10:57 UTC, submitted by wakeupneo
Icon"There are both popular and unpopular ways of circumventing the Free Software Foundation's General Public License. A very unpopular method, we've come to find out, is via promises of patent protection for users of specific software. However, if you're looking to leverage Free Software without completely fulfilling the requirements of the license, a better method would be to exploit the software as a service loophole, which the latest draft of the GPL3 just legalized."
e p (0)    28 Comment(s)

Related Articles

* FSF, SGI Cooperated to Resolve Licensing Issue in X.org, Mesa
posted by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Jan 2009 00:15
* State of Open Specification Hardware: Where Are We Headed?
posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Nov 2008 15:47, submitted by umccullough
* The Xiph.Org Foundation Announces Theora 1.0
posted by Adam S on Tue 4th Nov 2008 19:19, submitted by Luis