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Funambol's CEO sees AGPL as essential for FOSS in cloud computing's future

12-09-2008 12:00 PM
"The future of software is in cloud computing," says Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO of Funambol, a company that provides mobile services. And if free and open source software (FOSS) is going to survive in that emerging market, he says, then the community needs to adjust by promoting greater use of the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL), a license specifically crafted for software as a service.

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GLANCE-CACHE-MANAGE(1)						      Glance						    GLANCE-CACHE-MANAGE(1)

NAME

       glance-cache-manage - Glance Cache Manager

CACHE MANAGEMENT UTILITY

       Author glance@lists.launchpad.net

       Date   2012-01-03

       Copyright
	      OpenStack LLC

       Version
	      2012.1-dev

       Manual section
	      1

       Manual group
	      cloud computing

   SYNOPSIS
	  glance-cache-manage <command> [options] [args]

   COMMANDS
	  help <command>
		 Output help for one of the commands below

	  list-cached
		 List all images currently cached

	  list-queued
		 List all images currently queued for caching

	  queue-image
		 Queue an image for caching

	  delete-cached-image
		 Purges an image from the cache

	  delete-all-cached-images
		 Removes all images from the cache

	  delete-queued-image
		 Deletes an image from the cache queue

	  delete-all-queued-images
		 Deletes all images from the cache queue

	  clean  Removes any stale or invalid image files from the cache

   OPTIONS
	  --version
		 show program's version number and exit

	  -h, --help
		 show this help message and exit

	  -v, --verbose
		 Print more verbose output

	  -d, --debug
		 Print more verbose output

	  -H ADDRESS, --host=ADDRESS
		 Address of Glance API host.  Default: 0.0.0.0

	  -p PORT, --port=PORT
		 Port the Glance API host listens on.  Default: 9292

	  -A TOKEN, --auth_token=TOKEN
		 Authentication token to use to identify the client to the glance server

	  -f, --force
		 Prevent select actions from requesting user confirmation

   SEE ALSO
       o OpenStack Glance

   BUGS
       o Glance is sourced in Launchpad so you can view current bugs at OpenStack Glance

AUTHOR

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COPYRIGHT

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