Open Licensing Attacks on Specific Business Modelsan incomplete list
Throughout the years, a number of open licenses have attacked specific business models in the industry. Here’s an incomplete list:
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The GNU General Public License attacked proprietary software distribution
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The GNU Free Documentation License attacked proprietary documentation, as from O’Reilly Media
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The GNU Library Public License attacked free implementations of proprietary formats, like MP3
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The Affero General Public License and Open Software License attacked closed network services, or “the Google problem”
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GPL version 3 attacked “Tivoization”
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The Server Side Public License attacked closed cloud infrastructure services, the “Amazon problem”
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copyleft-next attacked dual licensing
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