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[News] GPLv3's Steep Rise, @Mail Goes Open Source

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GPL Project Watch List for Week of 05/16

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| As of today, May 16th, our count for the GPL v3 is at 2371 GPL v3 projects. 
| Since our last post, this is 160 new GPL v3 projects, which is the cumulation 
| of over 2 weeks of projects. This matches with our estimate of approximately 
| 50 projects per week. The AGPL v3 is still growing and is at 86 AGPL v3 
| projects, soon to hit 100 projects. And the LGPL v3 count is now at 219 LGPL 
| v3 projects, up 19 projects since our last posting.     
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http://gpl3.blogspot.com/2008/05/gpl-project-watch-list-for-week-of-0516.html

@Mail takes Webmail client open source

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| The @Mail Open client includes spell check, address book and video mail and 
| is offered under an Apache 2.0 Open Source license. Users also can jump from 
| the free client to the commercial version, which adds calendaring, and a 
| groupware and antivirus module.    
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=56062106&rid=-50


Recent:

WordPress is Open Source

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| Six Apart has recently decided that the best way to win back customers 
| fleeing their platforms is to target WordPress, which is a new strategy they 
| call competing. (What have they been doing the past 7 years?) A good example 
| is this exchange between a commenter on Valleywag and Byrne Reese, the lead 
| developer of Movable Type:    
| 
| Sundown: “@anildash: what part of Wordpress is not open source?”
| 
| byrnereese: “@Sunnduwn - I think that is a question better asked of 
| Automattic. Anil, and certainly not Six Apart, has never been briefed, nor 
| has anyone for that matter been presented with an accounting of what is open 
| and closed source at Automattic.”   
| 
| Okay, here’s some accounting:
| 
| WordPress is 100% open source, GPL.
| 
| All plugins in the official directory are GPL or compatible, 100% open 
| source. 
| 
| bbPress is 100% GPL.
| 
| WordPress MU is 100% open source, GPL, and if you wanted you could take it 
| and build your own hosted platform like WordPress.com, like edublogs.org has 
| with over 100,000 blogs.  
| 
| There is more GPL stuff on the way, as well. :)
| 
| Could you build Typepad or Vox with Movable Type? Probably not, especially 
| since people with more than a few blogs or posts say it grinds to a halt, as 
| Metblogs found before they switched to WordPress.  
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http://ma.tt/2008/03/wordpress-is-open-source/


How The GPL Can Save Your Ass

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| If you are the multi-billion dollar IT industry you stick you head in the 
| sand and just keep making cars. It is after all, not your problem. That seems 
| to be the attitude of almost every company with a vested interest in the 
| computing market. There was a recent announcement indicating Intel and 
| Microsoft have put up $10 million to fund research in parallel software. Hah! 
| I'm going to laugh harder this time HAH, HAH! Ever here the phase pissing in 
| the ocean, well this is more like throwing a match into the sun. We need 
| more -- much more.       
| 
| [...]
| 
| Second, the entire in industry must co-operate and be involved. We need 
| everyone working on this problem. The best minds in high performance 
| computing have been at it for quite a while and it is time to turn up the 
| volume. Fantasies of telling your R&D guys to get on it are not enough. 
| Trying to corral your Intellectual Property (IP) with trade secrets and 
| patents is wishful thinking. The rocket scientists (and plenty of other smart 
| people) have been working on this issue for a long time. You don't have the 
| time to waste trying to expand your IP fiefdom. Instead start thinking about 
| what happens when the next generation of products is of absolutely no 
| interest to your customers.         
| 
| Third we need to respond quickly. There is no time for IP agreements, 
| posturing, and NIH ego trips (Not Invented Here). We need leaders to 
| recognize the scope and magnitude of this challenge and act. Before too long, 
| it will not be unreasonable to have four or even eight cores in a desktop. A 
| workstation or server may have double this amount. It would sure be nice if 
| my software could effectively use all these cores.     
| 
| [...]
| 
| Using the GPL will immediately remove issues that would normally choke such 
| an important undertaking. First, the any IP barriers get pushed aside and 
| everyone can cooperate openly  
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http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5379


Related:

Microsoft Would Lose Patent Rights Under New Linux License Terms

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| The final draft of GPLv3 states that companies that distribute 
| open-source software cannot at the same time pursue patent claims 
| against users of that software.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199800081


Trolltech to adopt GPL 3 for Qt

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| Trolltech CEO Haavard Nord announced today at the KDE developer conference 
| that the company's cross-platform open source Qt application development 
| toolkit will be released under the GPL 3. This move, which comes shortly 
| after the release of KDE 4.0 (watch for our review on Sunday night), will 
| allow the open source desktop environment to adopt the new version of the 
| GPL.     
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/01/18/trolltech-to-adopt-gpl-3-for-qt
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