Computer Business Review: FSF Plans Another New License to Close SaaS Loophole

"Not content with bringing version three of its GNU General Public License to market, the Free Software Foundation is about to start work on a new license that will make the GPL applicable to software-as-a-service.

"The FSF has revealed that will work with the Affero GPL project on version two of its modification of the GNU GPL, which is designed to close a loophole that enables GPL code to be offered as a service without modifications being published..."

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