John Roberts, CEO SugarCRM announced during a panel discussion at the annual O’Reilly Open Source Conference that the next version of Sugar Community Edition will be licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3, scheduled late this year.

“Sugar Community Edition 5.0 will fully support GPLv3 when the software is made available,” he told attendees.

The move makes SugarCRM one of the first vendors of open-source
software to embrace the latest version of the GPL, which was just
released last month.

The move was welcomed by Eben Moglen, the executive director of the
Software Freedom Law Center, who was also extensively involved in the
drafting of GPLv3.

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