"A pair of my colleagues forwarded me a pitch today titled, 'Disappointing: Facebook Does Open Source like Microsoft.' It's an 'interesting' email pitch--it's a pity I wasn't contacted directly.
"Essentially what the pitch (which came from Bob Bickel Founder, Ringside Networks by way of PR firm techmarket) alleges is that the CPAL is a poison pill for open source code.
"'The poison pill in this license agreement is that anyone using the Facebook code as part of something else, and puts that up on a website, would need to make all of the code open source,' Bickel wrote in his email pitch..."
