I sent this to the editor.
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Dear Sir,
I would like to point out a few glaring mistakes in
Pavithra.S. Rangan's article on Drupal in your
newspaper (http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/article2621473.ece )
The author writes "While over thousands of developers maintain the
software, ‘tens of thousands' of community volunteers across the world
continuously add new features, called modules, to the license-free
software". But Drupal is licensed under GNU GPL >=2 and is not
"license-free". It is Free (as in Freedom) software under a copy-left
license.
>From the Drupal site: "Drupal and all contributed files hosted on
Drupal.org are licensed under the GNU General Public License, version
2 or later. That means you are free to download, reuse, modify, and
distribute any files hosted in Drupal.org's Git repositories under the
terms of either the GPL version 2 or version 3, and to run Drupal in
combination with any code with any license that is compatible with
either versions 2 or 3, such as the Affero General Public License
(AGPL) version 3."
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Best
A. Mani
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CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS
http://www.logicamani.co.cc
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