Bloomberg talks about OpenERP

Bloomberg, the source of news and information that drives decisions that move billions of dollars every day in the U.S., talks about OpenERP. Click on the following link to get the article.

OpenERP and Electronic Invoicing

Thymbra just released an Electronic Invoice module for the argentina market. Today it has been tailored to work for the argentinian laws, but it should be very similar for other countries. At Thymbra they have been invoicing electronically for a year now. It's solid ! You can find it in the argentinian localization project in launchpad.

OpenERP and AGPL

Hello,

As requested by several partners and the community, we plan to change the licence of the next version of OpenERP to the AGPL (GNU Affero General Public Licence). Our goal is to better promote and maintain the free and open source nature of OpenERP. We think this licence will better protect the community to 'evil' SaaS offers that do not want to release their source code to the community.

The GNU General Public License (currently used by OpenERP v5) permits making a modified version and letting the public access it on a server without ever releasing its source code to the public.

The GNU Affero General Public License is designed specifically to ensure that, in such cases, the modified source code becomes available to the community. It requires the operator of a network server to provide the source code of the modified version running there to the users of that server. Therefore, public use of a modified version, on a publicly accessible server, gives the public access to the source code of the modified version.

Both the GPLv3 and AGPL are OSI certified and compatible together. We advice OpenERP contributors to develop their future modules in the AGPL licence. You can get more information on this licence on the FSF website:

• http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html

You can contact fp AT openerp.com, for any question about this licence change.