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Not that I wouldn‘t love to bask in the glow of congratulations by leaving the previous article the top story a little longer, like for days, but there is big news to share with you: SugarCRM has just
announced that their next major Sugar Community Edition release will go GPLv3! Here’s what CEO John Roberts had to say:

“We are proud to adopt the GPL V3 with our next major Sugar Community Edition release,” said John Roberts, CEO and co-founder of SugarCRM Open Source Project. “We would like to thank the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for leading such an important effort to deliver the most modern FOSS license. The FSF undertook a very difficult process and incorporated many diverse developer and user needs and combined them into a fair and just representation of what FOSS means to our communities.”

This resolves some issues in a very pleasant way. Why did they do it? Their GPLv3 FAQ page explains:

SugarCRM believes the GPL v3 will become the standard for all open source licenses, and wanted to get a head start on adopting that standard.

I agree with their assessment, and I’m very excited by this news. Sometimes the media misunderstands the openness and frankness of conversations in the FOSS community when issues arise, imagining it means the community is breaking apart. It doesn’t. It means it’s functioning, and as a result, things get worked through.…more