Canonical Fully Open-Sources the Launchpad Code

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @01:27AM from the done-and-done dept.

kfogel writes "Canonical has just fully open-sourced the code to Launchpad. Although we'd said earlier that a couple of components would be held back, we changed our mind. All the code has been released under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3. 'Canonical will continue to run the Launchpad servers, taking care of production and deployment issues; opening up the code doesn't mean burdening the users with all of that stuff. At the same time, we'll institute processes to shepherd community-contributed code into the system, so that people who have ideas for how to improve Launchpad can quickly turn these ideas into reality.'"

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Re:I guess it closes bug #393596 ? by James_Duncan8181 · 2009-07-21 01:54 · Score: 4, Insightful

"Not really - the bug is calling for code to be released under a Free licence. The AGPL isn't a Free licence."
what.
It is approved by both the OSI and, obviously, the FSF. Are you trolling?

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