Talking Drupal

  Recorded the day after the US Presidential Election, John , Nick and I were a bit tired after watching election results throughout the night, but energized for a discussion with Kevin Reynen about Drupal Licensing. A recent community ‘conversation’ between WordPress and Wix sparked our interest to talk about the GPL. If you are making money on Open Source software, you should pay attention to licensing. Watch or listen Show Notes What is the Drupal Licensing Working Group? Everything committed to Drupal repo has to be compatible with GPL v2 What is the GPL? Based on Richard Stallman’s set of four freedoms: The freedom to run the program, for any purpose The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions, giving the community a chance to benefit from your changes What is the difference between copyright and licensing You can claim copyri