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Corel Beta now GPL-compliant

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the coming-clean dept.

SilentReproach writes "According to Bruce Perens at Technocrat.net, the latest version of the Corel beta license is up to par - victory declared for the GPL!"

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  1. Re:But is it... by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5
    Let's save trial-by-fire for the really bad guys. You should never make an enemy if you can avoid it!

    Thanks

    Bruce

    --
    Bruce Perens.
  2. How it happened by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 5
    I called the Corel switchboard when I first found out about this issue, and was put through to the Linux marketing person, who answered on the first ring and took charge of the problem right away. I subsequently spoke with the Linux product manager and with one of the engineers, who is also prominent in their local LUG. All of the Corel staff I spoke with were extremely polite and cooperative. Besides talking with me, they also corresponded with Debian and KDE folks, and they read your opinions on Slashdot.

    Corel is a huge company, they claim to be right behind Microsoft in size in the market sector they address, and they are the largest software company in Canada. For a company of that size to act on an issue like this in 4 days is excellent. That's how long it took from when they first became aware of the problem to when they made a policy-change announcement. I got the impression that they sincerely cared about what the Free Software community wanted.

    I'm also pleased that they based their system on Debian. It's nice to see that Debian is finally being appreciated for the fine system it is, by Corel, by SGI/VA/O'Reilly, by Storm Linux, etc.

    Thanks

    Bruce Perens

    --
    Bruce Perens.
  3. Source? by Money__ · · Score: 5
    What's interesting is the link in the article points to another discusion group at technocrat.net. Is this a valid source of information? It would be analogus to quoting another usenet post and claiming it to be both news worthy and factual.

    4) I'm from the government and here to help.

    3) I won't ____ in your mouth.

    2) Micros~1 products are stable.

    1) I read it on the internet, so it must be true.

    I would feel more comfortable actually reading the GPL in this story.