[ilugd] Article on Drupal in Hindu

[A. Mani]

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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Re: [ilugd] Article on Drupal in Hindu

[Mahesh T. Pai]

A. Mani said on Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:49:06AM +,:
 
  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.
   

Heh. This looks more like an editor's devil, (as in 'priner's devil).

The poor guys might have thought that freely licensed is same as
license free.

Thanks for that correction. Hope it get published. 


-- Mahesh T. Pai || 

Distributing free copies of non-free software is 
  -- like advertising drugs.

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