We Have Submitted AGPL to OSI | Linux Today

We Have Submitted AGPL to OSI

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 5, 2008

“If you follow open source, or at least this blog, you remember
the debate around GPL and the ASP loophole. In a nutshell,
companies using a trick to avoid returning changes to the code back
to the community. The last chapter is that AGPL v3 (the GPL version
that fixes the ASP loophole) was finalized in November, and we
switched the Funambol project to it.

“One thing I mentioned back in April was that we would do it, as
long as AGPL was approved by the Open Source Initiative
(OSI)…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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