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Facebook adopts the CPAL poison pill
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| For more traditional software projects, customers derive value from being
| able to modify the source code. But Facebook's customers are unlikely to do
| so, and now its partners (and competitors) won't do so, either. CPAL may make
| sense in some contexts, but I'm not sure this is one of them, unless Facebook
| actually intends for no one to modify its source code....
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9958180-16.html
CPAL? What's That?
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| In other words, if someone builds a web site based on the Facebook code, they
| must make the source code of their modifications available as soon as they
| let users into the site - whether or not they ship their own site code as a
| separate product.
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| One further note about the CPAL: because it's based on the MPL, it is not
| compatible with the GPL. Facebook does not appear to have availed itself of
| the dual-licensing provisions of the CPAL, meaning that any of Facebook's
| CPAL-licensed code cannot legally be linked with GPL code.
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http://ostatic.com/163756-blog/cpalss-whats-thatss
Is Facebook an open source hero or Microsoft clone?
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| Of far more interest to me is Facebook’s attempt to control its open source
| future, mainly under the Common Public Attribution License (the badgeware
| license) approved by the OSI after submission by SocialText.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2505
From:
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-06-03-020-26-OP-LL-DV-0000
GH - Subject: CPAL
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| Oh, nasty GPL AGPL !, wants you to give back oh my !...
| I see Facebook doing SaaS as no reson to bring up this pissy pick about the
| GPL. Remember now !, "Freedom" is using what license *you* want for your
| work, if someone dosen't like it ?, they can do their own !.
| Facebook has it as I read it, you will never have complete credit for what
| you create, also, Facebook does enjoy the "freedom" open standards and "open
| source" provides, to pick with another oss license to, imo, win a group of
| developers that btw, must not be doing much if they must have Facebook pick
| the CPAL for them. Pick the damn CPAL yourself !, for your work, become
| independent !.
| Good luck !.
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