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Google Reverses "Absurd" Mozilla Code Ban

Posted by kdawson on from the standing-athwart-history-yelling-"eof" dept.

Barence writes "Google has reversed its decision to ban projects created under the Mozilla Public License from being hosted on its Google Code site. Google banned the license in August, claiming it wanted to 'make a statement against open-source license proliferation' which it blamed for hindering the cross-pollination of code from one project to another. Chris DiBona, of Google's open source team, described its decision to ban the MPL as 'absurd,' citing the community's huge popularity." Jamie mentions that the issue was raised from the floor at OSCON at the Google Open Source Update panel, with DiBona on stage.

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  1. Boycott Vibrant in-frame popups by argent · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    * PC-Pro uses Vibrant "in-text" advertising, which creates highly intrusive in-frame popups on mouseover.
    * Vibrant no-longer allows you to opt out of their intrusive pop-ups.

    Please do not link to sites like PC-Pro that use this intrusive advertising scheme.

  2. Re:People still use Subversion? by Varun+Soundararajan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    once u use git you will nevr come back to any of these.

    once u use vcs you will never come back to source control ;-).