Alfresco expands base with move to GPL

[Posted February 26, 2007 by cook]

Alfresco Software, Inc. has announced its plans to license its enterprise content management software under the GNU General Public License (GPL). "While the GPL has been widely adopted by Linux distributors and open source infrastructure companies, Alfresco is leading what is expected to be an increasing number of open source application companies to adopt the GPL. Alfresco previously licensed its software under the Mozilla Public License with a clause requiring attribution. The move, which further grows and strengthens Alfresco's developer and OEM community, puts the company on a collision course with proprietary content management vendors and sets off what is expected to be a trend for open source application developers."