On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Christian Ledermann <christian.ledermann@gmail.com> wrote:
e.g. gpl v3 - closed a loophole in the gpl2 which allowed you to run modified open source software as a service over the web and not share the source.
No you are thinking about the AGPL here, the GPL3 still alows you to do that
The GPL v1 was written February 1989 by programmers not lawyers. In some countries it conflicted with the local laws thus making it non applicable, so it had to be changed and clarified over the years, the gist and reason still remain the same there is no change in the overall vision.
Note that the GPL is as legally binding as any other license: http://gpl-violations.org/
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:32 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
Someone who makes sense? http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/the_problems_of_open_source.htm
This is a lot of FUD and misinformation, the statement about the quality an outright lie, independent research has shown that OSS software contains less bugs than proprietary software
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Report-Open-source-software-quality-i... "The researchers examined the code of 45 major open source projects. On average, the examined projects consisted of about 820,000 lines of code. The open source projects were found to have an average defect density of 0.45, based on the number of defects per 1,000 lines of code. Coverity found that there were 0.64 defects in every 1,000 lines of proprietary software code. For its study, the company examined 41 of its customers' software developments, which on average included 7.55 million lines of code. This defect density is, however, still below Coverity's 1.0 benchmark for high quality software. In their announcement of the latest edition of their open source report, the Coverity researchers highlighted Linux 2.6, PHP 5.3 and PostgreSQL as projects of excellent code quality, calling them "model citizens". These projects were found to have defect densities of 0.62, 0.20 and 0.21, said Coverity. Linux was commended because its approximately 7 million lines of code exhibit a defect density that is almost identical to that of competing proprietary software products."
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