[P2P-F] Martin Fink on copyleft

Karl Robillard krobillard at san.rr.com
Sat Oct 24 05:23:38 CEST 2015


Nathan Willis wrote the following on Linux Weekly News :

    "On the final day of LinuxCon Europe 2015, HP's Chief Technology Officer 
Martin Fink delivered a bold keynote about software licensing. Fink recapped 
the negative effects of license proliferation and addressed projects that use 
their choice of license as hostile act against the competition. He then ended 
the session with an extended appeal to move the open-source software industry 
away from permissive licenses like Apache 2.0 and toward copyleft licenses 
like the GPL."

The complete article is at http://lwn.net/Articles/660428/.

This is related to the Apache vs GPL blog post
    http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/why-apache-defeated-the-gpl-license-developer-freedom-vs-user-freedom/2013/01/21


-Karl



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