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Corporate Anxiety Over GPL Licensing In Business Software Guidelines

Calendar Oct 07, 2009 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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Is this the same old concerns from a few years ago rising again? Companies are running scared of General Public Licence (GPL) software for fear of being sued, according to a leading open source enthusiast at Adobe. "A number of very large companies have rules to exclude GPL code," said Dave McAllister, director of standards and open source at Adobe.

"GPL2 had something that made lawyers comfortable

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