affero general public license

After 18 months of widespread consultation with community and corporate interests, the third versions of the GNU General Public License (GPL) and GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) were released one year ago on 29 June 2007.

In November, they were joined by the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL). Looking back at these licenses [...]

After 18 months of widespread consultation with community and corporate interests, the third versions of the GNU General Public License (GPL) and GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) were released one year ago on 29 June 2007.

In November, they were joined by the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL). Looking back at these licenses [...]

Fabrizio Capobianco has written a thoughtful blog entry explaining why the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPLv3) is an important step towards ensuring open source freedoms in an age of Software as a Service (SaaS).

Some people are suspicious about the growing power of Google - and some are downright upset and claim that Google is deliberately trying to slow the adoption of the Affero General Public License (AGPL) through not making it a choice for open source projects hosted by Google Code...