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		<title>Affero GNU Public License is now OSI approved</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fabrizio Balliano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Russ Nelson wrote in the OSI licence-review mailing list that finally the AGPL 3 was approved! You can already see it in the OSI approved licenses page. I think AGPL3 is really important for web applications and I&#8217;m really happy that OSI made AGPL official. Now I hope that more FLOSS projects will use [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday Russ Nelson wrote in the <a href="http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?17">OSI licence-review mailing list</a> that finally the AGPL 3 was approved!</p>
<p>You can already see it in the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical">OSI approved licenses</a> page.</p>
<p>I think AGPL3 is really important for web applications and I&#8217;m really happy that OSI made AGPL official. Now I hope that more FLOSS projects will use it.</p>
<p>PS: This post is a sort of answer to <a href="http://fabrizioballiano.net/2008/02/27/magento-license-could-be-a-serious-trouble/">post about Magento&#8217;s license</a> where Roy Rubin (CEO of Varien) told me that AGPL wasn&#8217;t OSI approved (it was true in that moment, but now it isn&#8217;t anymore). Hey I don&#8217;t want to reopen the licenses war of that post, this note is just to join the arguments :-)</p>
<p><strong>UPDATE: </strong> <a href="http://www.cnet.com/8300-13505_1-16.html?authorId=9728254">Matt Asay</a> says that <a href="http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9894155-16.html">AGPL is a cure for the cancer within open source</a>. I agree.</p>



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