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Congressman Distances Himself from Attack on GPL
Posted by Ernest Miller on Thursday, October 24 @ 07:58:53 EDT OpenSource
As featured on LawMeme yesterday (New Democrats: No Gov't $ to GPL Projects), several members of the New Democrat Coalition have been circulating a note attacking the GPL and encouraging their colleagues to support a letter from Jim Turner (D-TX) and Tom Davis (R-VA), the ranking member and chairman, respectively, of the Reform Subcommittee on Technology and Procurement Policy. The letter is addressed to the Chair of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and calls on him to explicitly reject "licenses that would prevent or discourage commercial adoption of promising cyber security technologies developed through federal R&D." Now, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (by way of the AP and D. Ian Hopper) reports that Rep. Davis has criticized the anti-GPL interpretation of the letter (Congressman under fire for attack on free software). It is good that the Chair of the Subcommittee on Technology and Procurement is distancing himself from this attack on the GPL. However, the letter, while it doesn't mention the GPL, still appears to be a veiled attack on it.
 
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