“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…”
CPAL is Not an Open Source Poison Pill for Facebook
By
Sean Michael Kerner
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