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New Move afoot to outlaw the GPL
[link|http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/02/10/23/1247236.shtml?tid=4|Or something like that]

Excerpt:

The terms of restrictive license's - such as those in the GNU or GPL - prevent companies from adopting, improving, commercializing and deriving profits from the software by precluding companies from establishing commercial IP rights in any subsequent code. Thus, if government R&D creates a security innovation under a restrictive license, a commercial vendor will not integrate that code into its software. So long as government research is not released under licensing terms that restrict commercialization, publicly funded research provides an important resource for the software industry.

New Democrats have long supported public-private partnerships -- it's important that any licenses do not compromise a company's intellectual property rights in their own technology. I encourage you to sign the attached letter to Mr. Clarke. If you have any questions, please contact Mike Mullen (Rep. Jim Turner; 5-2401) or John Mulligan (Rep. Adam Smith; 5-8901). Thank you.

Sincerely,

[link|http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.asp?CID=N00007833&cycle=2002|Adam Smith] Member of Congress
Ron Kind Member of Congress
Jim Davis Member of Congress
DUBYA WAS RIGHT about North Korea.
[link|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html|http://www.angelfire...arlowe/index.html]
The nihilists and the liars have buried truth alive in a shallow grave.
"The US party calls in mortar fire on the enemy positions. The UN party stands up, climbs over the lip of the trench, and recites Robert\ufffds Rules of Order as it approaches the machine-gun positions." - Lileks
New I am already discussing this elsewhere
On the [link|http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?sss:8097:200210:pnjhbfjnaoiadbbgiidb#b|fsb list].

[link|http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?mss:8086:200210:pnjhbfjnaoiadbbgiidb|Here] is my analysis of what this measure is intended to prevent, and why the government should be doing what this measure tries to ban.

Cheers,
Ben
"Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly."
- [link|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html|Walter Mead]
New One nit?
Apache (at least the main http server) is not a GPL project - more along the lines of BSD.

Aside from that, I agree that the government should be free to make modifications to GPL software and abide by the license restrictions where appropriate. However, I would favor that any projects which do not have current license restrictions - i.e. new projects - should be distributed under the looser terms of BSD.
New That was meant to tie back to something in the second point
That my arguments for government being involved in open source apply regardless of license. (In fact they can and do apply to proprietary software as well as open source.)

Incidentally according to [link|http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?mss:8104:200210:pnjhbfjnaoiadbbgiidb|http://www.crynwr.co...hbfjnaoiadbbgiidb] Congress has been so swamped by reporter's calls on this issue that many congresscritters involved are backing away from the letter and giving it a big, Oops!

Cheers,
Ben
"Career politicians are inherently untrustworthy; if it spends its life buzzing around the outhouse, it\ufffds probably a fly."
- [link|http://www.nationalinterest.org/issues/58/Mead.html|Walter Mead]
     Move afoot to outlaw the GPL - (marlowe) - (3)
         I am already discussing this elsewhere - (ben_tilly) - (2)
             One nit? - (ChrisR) - (1)
                 That was meant to tie back to something in the second point - (ben_tilly)

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