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"A new analysis of licensing data shows that not only is use of the GPL and other copyleft licenses continuing to decline, but the rate of disuse is actually accelerating."

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"There are a lot of smart people out there who think that there’s a technical solution for every legal problem, but this one is particularly difficult. It even prevents the distribution of proprietary applications through the App Store that use libraries licensed under the LGPL or the GPL with the runtime exception. The locked-down nature of Apple’s products also eliminates the possibility of distributing a proprietary application that sideloads an (L)GPL library."

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"OpenLogic analyzed which open source licenses are most used by enterprises versus those preferred by open source developers. Over two-thirds of open source projects are licensed under the GPL, which has created the impression that the GPL is the most popular open source license. However, the research examined data about enterprise usage and found that Apache-license projects were the most downloaded and most used in enterprise applications."

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"There have been changes to the terms since our original blog
post on the topic. I confirmed that the changes did not affect the
GPLv2 analysis before I blogged about Rémi's enforcement action, but
it's fair to ask me to show my work and I'm happy to do that here."

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"That's the problem in a nutshell: Apple's Terms of Service impose restrictive limits on use and distribution for any software distributed through the App Store, and the GPL doesn't allow that. This specific case involves other issues, but this is the one that's most unique and deserves explanation."

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"The iPhone and iPad versions of the popular video player VLC have been removed from the App Store, in what appears to be a showdown between VLC's open-source licensing and the DRM restrictions placed on apps downloaded from Apple's store."

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"Microsoft has raised the ire of the open source community with its Windows Marketplace licence by specifically refusing to allow software covered under an open licence to be distributed."

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"A group of open source software developers working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have implemented a native Linux port of Sun's ZFS filesystem. Although the code is functional and available for download (but not production-ready yet), it cannot be merged upstream or shipped in binary form with the Linux kernel due to a licensing conflict. Sun distributes the OpenSolaris source code under its own Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), which is incompatible with GNU's General Public License (GPL)."

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"The EPL and the GPL are inherently incompatible licenses. That is the position of both the Free Software Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation. In preparing this we consulted with the FSF to make sure we fully understood their interpretation of the GPL and how it interacts with the EPL. You may not link GPL and EPL code together and distribute the result. It doesn’t matter if the linking is dynamic, static or whatever. This bears repeating: if you or your organization are distributing EPL and GPL licensed code linked together into a single program you are almost certainly violating both the EPL and the GPL."

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"Interestingly, the OpenECP project chose to license it under the Affero GPLv3, and we’re watching licensing moves to see if cloud computing prompts more use of AGPL."

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"Regardless of whether Microsoft did violate the GPL, or whether it did release the code to avoid a lawsuit, Microsoft should have been more forthright in its announcement and told the whole story, Cherry said. He said the move "casts doubt" on Microsoft's motives in the open-source arena. Perhaps it casts doubt on Microsoft's credibility in general.

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"The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has published a guide that explains the obligations imposed by GNU's General Public License (GPL). The SFLC, which has recently conducted a string of GPL enforcement lawsuits, released the guide in order to educate companies and help them understand what they need to do in order to comply with the license and avoid legal risks."

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