| Weblog: | GPL gets another brickbat--but where does the Sarbanes-Oxley problem really lie? | |
| Subject: | GPL supporters examine the issue | |
| Date: | 2006-03-07 09:39:18 | |
| From: | andyo | |
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A valuable statement (http://www.softwarefreedom.org/publications/Sarbanes-Oxley.html) on the relationship between the GPL and Sarbanes-Oxley comes from the Software Freedom Law Center. This organization, chaired by Eben Moglen, provides law-related services to protect and advance free software. One of their observations is that proprietary licenses are usually more complex than the GPL, and hard to check conformance with. I would still stand by the point in my blog that a company can easily identify what software is covered by a proprietary license because they went through an explicit licensing process, which they don't always do for open source software. |
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