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=== SugarCRM Public License === {{further|SugarCRM#License}} In 2007 [[Michael Tiemann]], president of OSI, had criticized<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.opensource.org/node/163 | title=Will The Real Open Source CRM Please Stand Up? | first=Michael | last=Tiemann | author-link=Michael Tiemann | date=2007-06-21 | publisher=[[Open Source Initiative]] | access-date=2008-01-04}}</ref> companies such as [[SugarCRM]] for promoting their software as "open source" when in fact it did not have an OSI-approved license. In SugarCRM's case, it was because the software is so-called "[[badgeware]]"<ref>{{cite web | url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=3430 | date=2006-11-21 | title=Are SugarCRM, Socialtext, Zimbra, Scalix and others abusing the term "open source?" | first=David | last=Berlind | publisher=[[ZDNet]] | access-date=2008-01-04 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080101010337/http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=3430 | archive-date=1 January 2008 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> since it specified a "badge" that must be displayed in the user interface. SugarCRM's open source version was re-licensed under the GPL version 3 in 2007,<ref>{{cite news|last=Vance|first=Ashlee|author-link=Ashlee Vance|date=2007-07-25|title=SugarCRM trades badgeware for GPL 3|publisher=The Register|url=http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/07/25/sugarcrm_gpl3/|access-date=2008-09-08}}</ref> and later the [[GNU Affero General Public License|GNU Affero GPL]] version 3 in 2010.<ref name=":2">{{cite web|author1=OSI Board of Directors|date=19 January 2021|title=The SSPL is Not an Open Source License|url=https://opensource.org/node/1099|access-date=23 January 2021|publisher=[[Open Source Initiative]]}}</ref>
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