[News] MPower Adopts Duality with GPL, Railo Goes LGPL

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CRM Vendor for Nonprofits MPower Accepted by SourceForge

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| MPower, which sells nonprofit constituent relationship management (CRM) and
| fundraising products, announced that its product has been accepted by
| SourceForge.net, an online repository of open source code and applications.
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[url]http://telephony-hardware.tmcnet.com/topics/open-source/articles/31075-crm-vendor-nonprofits-mpower-accepted-sourceforge.htm[/url]

World's Largest Online Repository for Open Source Software Accepts MPower

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| Consistent with the dual licensing approach used by many of the world’s
| leading open source solutions (e.g., MySQL, Asterisk and Alfresco), MPower is
| available on SourceForge and through MPower directly under two licenses.
| Nonprofits may use and innovate with the software under the latest version of
| the GNU General Public License, or GPLv3, which is the most widely used
| licensing agreement for open source software.
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[url]http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080613005081&newsLang=en[/url]

Railo to go open source under JBoss

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| The new release, version 3.1, will be distributed under the LGPL2 license.
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[url]http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/codemonkeybusiness/viewblogpost.htm?p=339270993[/url]


Recent:

Pentaho Releases Business Intelligence Platform Under GPL License

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| Pentaho Corp., the commercial open source alternative for business
| intelligence (BI), today announced that its current version 2 alpha release
| of the Pentaho BI Platform, as well as future versions, will be distributed
| under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2 (GPLv2).
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[url]http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/103804/index.html[/url]


Irreconcilable conflict between $ and Open Source ?!

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| I guess this particular attorney has never heard of Red Hat (aiming for $1
| billion in revenue), Oracle (runs its own infrastructure on open source
| software), Cisco (world's largest networking vendor that is now backing
| Linux) and many other for profit vendors that all have somehow RECONCILED
| open source and profit
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[url]http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/06/legal-firm-warns-of-irreconcil.html[/url]
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On 2008-06-14, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> claimed:[color=blue]
>
> CRM Vendor for Nonprofits MPower Accepted by SourceForge
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| MPower, which sells nonprofit constituent relationship management (CRM) and
>| fundraising products, announced that its product has been accepted by
>| SourceForge.net, an online repository of open source code and applications.
> `----
>
> [url]http://telephony-hardware.tmcnet.com/topics/open-source/articles/31075-crm-vendor-nonprofits-mpower-accepted-sourceforge.htm[/url]
>
> World's Largest Online Repository for Open Source Software Accepts MPower
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Consistent with the dual licensing approach used by many of the world’s
>| leading open source solutions (e.g., MySQL, Asterisk and Alfresco), MPower is
>| available on SourceForge and through MPower directly under two licenses.
>| Nonprofits may use and innovate with the software under the latest version of
>| the GNU General Public License, or GPLv3, which is the most widely used
>| licensing agreement for open source software.
> `----
>
> [url]http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080613005081&newsLang=en[/url]
>
> Railo to go open source under JBoss
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The new release, version 3.1, will be distributed under the LGPL2 license.
> `----
>
> [url]http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/codemonkeybusiness/viewblogpost.htm?p=339270993[/url][/color]

This isn't an advocacy post. Ewik says so.

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On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:21:26 -0500, Sinister Midget wrote:
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> This isn't an advocacy post. Ewik says so.[/color]

Who's Ewik? Oh you mean this guy:

[url]http://colatrolls.blogspot.com/2007/01/erik-funkenbusch-troll.html[/url]

Erik 'the weasel' Funkenbusch

:-)

hardon quack <hardon@quack.org> writes:
[color=blue]
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:21:26 -0500, Sinister Midget wrote:
>[color=green]
>> This isn't an advocacy post. Ewik says so.[/color]
>
> Who's Ewik? Oh you mean this guy:
>
> [url]http://colatrolls.blogspot.com/2007/01/erik-funkenbusch-troll.html[/url]
>
> Erik 'the weasel' Funkenbusch
>
> :-)[/color]

High Plains Hypocrite and his admirers clog up the group yet more.

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Hadron wrote:[color=blue]
> hardon quack writes:[color=green]
>> Sinister Midget wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> This isn't an advocacy post. Ewik says so.[/color]
>>
>> Who's Ewik? Oh you mean this guy:
>>
>> [url]http://colatrolls.blogspot.com/2007/01/erik-funkenbusch-troll.html[/url]
>>
>> Erik 'the weasel' Funkenbusch :-)[/color]
>
> High Plains Hypocrite and his admirers clog up the group yet more.[/color]

Illiteracy runs high here with the trolls in this newsgroup. Nope, I'm
not "hardon quack".

[url]http://colatrolls.blogspot.com/2007/01/hadron-quark-troll.html[/url]

Hadron 'the liar' Quark :-)

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