Under User Pressure, SugarCRM Adopts GPLv3

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday July 26, 2007 @01:28AM from the still-a-trickle dept.

StonyandCher writes "SugarCRM is to adopt version 3 of the GNU general public license for the next release of its open-source CRM software after coming under pressure from its user community to move away from its own Sugar Public License. 'We just think it's a great license,' said John Roberts, SugarCRM CEO and co-founder. 'It's more copyleft, more liberal and less restrictive than our current license.' He added that when the beta version of Sugar Community Edition 5.0 ships within two weeks, it will be licensed under GPLv3."

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I wrote about this yesterday by MarkWatson · 2007-07-26 01:37 · Score: 4, Informative

The old SugarCRM license had an advertising requirement that required a large advertisement on every page. One of my old customers ended up not using SugarCRM because of this.

Good also to see even wider GPL v3 adoption!