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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: gpl</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/gpl.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2009-07-13T23:59:01+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Twenty questions about the GPL</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jul/13/twenty/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-07-13T23:59:01+00:00</published><updated>2009-07-13T23:59:01+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jul/13/twenty/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://jacobian.org/writing/gpl-questions/"&gt;Twenty questions about the GPL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Jacob kicks off a fascinating discussion about GPLv3.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gpl"&gt;gpl&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gpl3"&gt;gpl3&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jacob-kaplan-moss"&gt;jacob-kaplan-moss&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/licensing"&gt;licensing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source"&gt;open-source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="gpl"/><category term="gpl3"/><category term="jacob-kaplan-moss"/><category term="licensing"/><category term="open-source"/></entry><entry><title>EveryBlock source code released</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jul/1/everyblock/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-07-01T20:01:23+00:00</published><updated>2009-07-01T20:01:23+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jul/1/everyblock/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.everyblock.com/2009/jun/30/source/"&gt;EveryBlock source code released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
EveryBlock’s Knight Foundation grant required them to release the source code after two years, under the GPL. Lots of neat Django / PostgreSQL / GIS tricks to be found within.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django"&gt;django&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/everyblock"&gt;everyblock&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/geospatial"&gt;geospatial&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gpl"&gt;gpl&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source"&gt;open-source&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/postgresql"&gt;postgresql&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python"&gt;python&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="django"/><category term="everyblock"/><category term="geospatial"/><category term="gpl"/><category term="open-source"/><category term="postgresql"/><category term="python"/></entry><entry><title>Ext Core 3.0 Beta Released</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/5/extcore/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-04-05T20:17:51+00:00</published><updated>2009-04-05T20:17:51+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/5/extcore/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://extjs.com/blog/2009/04/04/ext-core-30-beta-released/"&gt;Ext Core 3.0 Beta Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
The Ext JavaScript team have just released the core library (similar to jQuery or Prototype) under an MIT license. The rich GUI elements that go on top are still under the GPL.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/extcore"&gt;extcore&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/extjs"&gt;extjs&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gpl"&gt;gpl&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript"&gt;javascript&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/licensing"&gt;licensing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/mit"&gt;mit&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source"&gt;open-source&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="extcore"/><category term="extjs"/><category term="gpl"/><category term="javascript"/><category term="licensing"/><category term="mit"/><category term="open-source"/></entry><entry><title>VirtualBox</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/May/8/virtualbox/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-05-08T21:35:53+00:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T21:35:53+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/May/8/virtualbox/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/"&gt;VirtualBox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
GPL licensed virtualization software; they recently released an OS X version.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/gpl"&gt;gpl&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source"&gt;open-source&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/virtualbox"&gt;virtualbox&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/virtualization"&gt;virtualization&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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