“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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