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GPL author: Google must share code

Publication:InfoWorldDate:May 24 2007
Reporter:Robert McMillan

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Companies like Google that build their business on software such as Linux have a moral imperative to contribute back to the free software community, a prominent open-source advocate said Tuesday.

That's a good thing because it doesn't look like software licenses will require this anytime soon, Eben Moglen, a Columbia university professor and chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, said Tuesday during a speech at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco.




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