SugarCRM Open Source Project Announces Adoption of GPL v3...

"SugarCRM Inc... today announced the upcoming release of Sugar Community Edition 5.0 will be licensed under the new Version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The GPL is the most widely used free and open source (FOSS) license in the market.

"'We are proud to adopt the GPL V3 with our next major Sugar Community Edition release,' said John Roberts, CEO and co-founder of SugarCRM Open Source Project. 'We would like to thank the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for leading such an important effort to deliver the most modern FOSS license. The FSF undertook a very difficult process and incorporated many diverse developer and user needs and combined them into a fair and just representation of what FOSS means to our communities...'"

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