This post may seem odd to anyone who knows me. I'm a massive advocate of open source software and free (as in speech or beer - hey it's free) technologies. I'm no
FSF zealot but I do believe that sharing source code, development tools, libraries even the platforms on which they run is a great way to encourage innovation and produce amazing projects.
That said I'm increasingly running into issues with one of the most common open source licences -
GPL (v2 or v3). One of the main implications of the GPL is that including code licensed under this model requires that the calling application be licensed under the same model. For ColdFusion this has some interesting and awkward implications.
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