Wow! A corporation promoting the use of the GPL? I am amazed. "Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft" http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/660428/2be1b3a592c63b92/
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He then ended the session with an extended appeal to move the open-source software industry away from permissive licenses like Apache 2.0 and toward copyleft licenses like the GPL. Not doing so, he said, puts the FOSS community at just as much risk of collapse as license proliferation threatened to in years past.
Didn't expect to hear that out of HP's CTO! Great though!
Christopher Allan Webber at 2015-10-14T20:24:37Z
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