The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) today commended the Free Software Foundation and the Software Freedom Law Center for their significant work in introducing Version 3 of the General Public License (GPL).
Full story »The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) today commended the Free Software Foundation and the Software Freedom Law Center for their significant work in introducing Version 3 of the General Public License (GPL).
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mattflaschen
17 years 14 weeks 2 hours 29 min ago
"SIFMA thanks the foundation for
"SIFMA thanks the foundation for its consideration of the views of SIFMA members and looks forward to the publication of the final version of the GPL." I think this means they were partly responsible for the narrowing of the tivoization clause to User Products. The rationale says large corporations don't want the ability to modify embedded code, for accountability reasons. I could definitely financial services businesses having this view.