[...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerpt Funambol’s move to adopt the new GNU Affero GPLv3 (AGPLv3) has some interesting implications for the mobile open source software player. It will be even more interesting, though, to see whether other open source SaaS players follow Funambol’s lead. What will be the impacts of closing open source software’s loopholes? Funambol describes AGPLv3 as ‘the open source license of the future’ because it aligns with the modern trend of SaaS. Funambol believes, as does the Free Software Foundation, that [...]

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Jay I can hardly see SaaS champions like Google shifting to AGPL.

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Of course they might want to share some non-differentiating software, as they are actually doing now, but they don’t need the AGPL for this. On the contrary going AGPL would require the adoption od software architectures API-based in order to avoid the risk of being obliged to make public differentiating software.

Android it’s a different story. GPL was the right way to go, no doubt. But what about going to ask OEMs to join the club saying them that they would have got less (commercial) freedom than with windows mobile? I understand it wasn’t easy at all, but shall this technological club stay united? Fragmentation seems to be a keyword when talking about mobile..

Jay, I can hardly see SaaS champions like Google shifting to AGPL. As Bruce Perens argued:

it would be a mistake to Open Source your business differentiators, because then your competitor’s business might use them to become as desirable to the customer as your own business.

Of course they might want to share some non-differentiating software, as they are actually doing now, but they don’t need the AGPL for this. On the contrary going AGPL would require the adoption od software architectures API-based in order to avoid the risk of being obliged to make public differentiating software.

Android it’s a different story. GPL was the right way to go, no doubt. But what about going to ask OEMs to join the club saying them that they would have got less (commercial) freedom than with windows mobile? I understand it wasn’t easy at all, but shall this technological club stay united? Fragmentation seems to be a keyword when talking about mobile..

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[...] identify open source packages, OSS Discovery is licensed under the new Affero GPLv3 (AGPLv3) for open source SaaS. It can be downloaded from CollabNet, where the open source discovery tool is [...]

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[...] down in sharing requirements? Steger says the move appears to be paying off given Funambol was among the first to adopt the AGPLv3 and adoption of the license is now [...]

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