Google Code Allows More Licenses
Google Code Allows More Licenses
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The announcement blog explained Google's change of heart:
We never really liked turning away projects that were under real, compatible licenses like the zlib or other permissive licenses, nor did we really like turning away projects under licenses that serve a truly new function, like the AGPL. We also think that there were inconsistencies in how we handled multi-licensed projects (for instance: a project that is under an Apache license, but has a zlib component.)
Google also let users know that it is serious about blocking non-open source software on Google Code: "Please note: we will continue to hunt down and kill non-open source projects or other projects using Google Code as a generic file-hosting service."
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