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Wednesday, July 25 2007 @ 04:31 PM EDT
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Not that I wouldn't love to bask in the glow of congratulations by leaving the previous article the top story a little longer, like for days, but there is big news to share with you: SugarCRM has just
announced that their next major Sugar Community Edition release will go GPLv3! Here's what CEO John Roberts had to say: "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." This resolves some issues in a very pleasant way. Why did they do it? Their GPLv3 FAQ page explains: SugarCRM believes the GPL v3 will become the standard for all open source licenses, and wanted to get a head start on adopting that standard. I agree with their assessment, and I'm very excited by this news. Sometimes the media misunderstands the openness and frankness of conversations in the FOSS community when issues arise, imagining it means the community is breaking apart. It doesn't. It means it's functioning, and as a result, things get worked through.
In the email announcing the news, Roberts added this: The GPL is the most widely used open source license in the market today with roughly 70 percent of open source projects using the GPL. The GPL v3 protects developer innovation while respecting the rights of others' to innovate and share. Adoption of the GPL v3 for Sugar Community Edition will increase compatibility between Sugar projects and other popular open source projects, allowing for greater innovation and co-creation in our user community. Palamida's GPLv3 conversion list is up to 212, by the way. Well, it will be 213 now, I guess. Here's more info from the press release: SugarCRM Inc., the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, 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....
Sugar Community Edition 5.0 is expected to be released in the September timeframe, and introduces innovative platform features, new CRM functionality and community development tools.
"I'm pleased to see the SugarCRM open source project adopt the GPL v3," said Eben Moglen, executive director of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and outside counsel to the Free Software Foundation, who played a key role in the drafting process of the new GPL v3 license. "We believe that sharing knowledge is good. We encourage other important free and open source software projects to take this step and join us in making better software."
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| Authored by: Erwan on Wednesday, July 25 2007 @ 04:36 PM EDT |
If any...
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| Authored by: DannyB on Wednesday, July 25 2007 @ 04:38 PM EDT |
Please post off topic messages here.
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| Authored by: vruz on Wednesday, July 25 2007 @ 04:43 PM EDT |
Congratulations to SugarCRM.
That was a rather quick and efficient resolution of their licencing limbo
problem.
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| Authored by: DannyB on Wednesday, July 25 2007 @ 04:46 PM EDT |
PJ wrote:
Sometimes the media misunderstands the openness and
frankness of conversations in the FOSS community when issues arise, imagining it
means the community is breaking apart. It doesn't. It means it's functioning,
and as a result, things get worked through.
Do you suppose
that there might be issues discussed and disagreements within proprietary
development communities? They just don't have the "openness and frankness of
conversations in the FOSS community".
If (some of) the press doesn't
see their internal bickering, then they imagine it must not exist.---
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price of freedom is eternal litigation. [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 25 2007 @ 04:56 PM EDT |
No one is going to use GPLv3 because it's so draconian and
viral.
So.... this press-release is a fake marketing speil produced by
the open source industry, like that silly ODF FUD thingy ;)
RAS
ps: for
the humor impaired, do not take the above seriously or while you are heavily
sedated on caffein
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| Authored by: rc on Wednesday, July 25 2007 @ 05:24 PM EDT |
| (Going with the flow...)
Please remember to use the preview button, and read
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 25 2007 @ 06:19 PM EDT |
Well it looks like SugarCRM is going to benefit from a burst in development
coming from all corners of the globe. I hope they are ready for it. We have 6
customers that are looking for a GPL CRM solution to get away from ACT. I will
pitch this to them. I hope Zimbra follows suit. We have several people that
are interested in that solution. [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Darigaaz on Wednesday, July 25 2007 @ 11:35 PM EDT |
Sometimes the media misunderstands the openness and frankness of
conversations in the FOSS community when issues arise, imagining it means the
community is breaking apart. It doesn't. It means it's functioning, and as a
result, things get worked through.
Interesting point. I guess
it hadn't occurred to me that disagreements of that nature in most businesses
are (or at least appear to outsiders to be) decided by fiat. So if a
disagreement like the ones that are so common on, say, the LKML, becomes public,
most of the time that's because it really is serious infighting - anything less
gets handled privately, and quietly. But then, I'm putting off entering the Real
World for a couple years (grad school beckons), so I haven't yet acquired the
instinctive cynicism of the business world - I still have to work at it, unless
we're talking about MS or SCO. :)
It's worth it in the end to have such
disagreements public, though. If everyone knows they can bring up such an idea
and won't be told to keep their mouth shut and toe the line, you'll get a lot
more ideas floating around ... and some of them are bound to be
useful.
Perhaps the media overvalues "putting up a united face". (Okay,
there's no "perhaps" about it. They do.) Sending people off in a hundred
different directions at once helps you find the optimum a lot more quickly ...
if you're willing to change to that direction once you find it. ---
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eyes make all bugs shallow - not just in software, but journalism and law as
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| Authored by: Toon Moene on Thursday, July 26 2007 @ 10:52 AM EDT |
Sometimes the media misunderstands the openness and frankness of
conversations in the FOSS community when issues arise, imagining it means the
community is breaking apart.
The GCC community calls it
"pulling a LKML" if someone goes ballistic on our mailing
lists.
Although we don't aspire for the high marks this blog goes
after, I think most of the contributions to those lists can be quoted here
without [redacting].
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Toon Moene (A GNU Fortran maintainer and
physicist at large) [ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: micheas on Sunday, July 29 2007 @ 06:15 PM EDT |
This is sort of interesting.
SugarCRM stopped using GPLv2 when <a
href="http://www.vtiger.com/">VTiger</a>
Forked SugarCRM and labled it VTiger.
SugarCRM had a hissy fit and put their branding license on the community
edition.
Some basic feature that are only available on the non opensource version of
SugarCRM (like sales teams!) are available in vtiger.
Over all it will be interesting to see how this all plays out.[ Reply to This | # ]
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