First draft of GPL version 3 available online
As reported last month, this year will see the
first update of the GNU General Public License—the license employed by, depending on who you ask, half to
three-fourths of all free software—since 1991, and the Free Software Foundation has posted the first draft of the new GPLv3. It's no easy read, but luckily there's a Rationale Document that describes all of the changes in the new version of
the license and the rationale behind them. The GPLv3 attempts to fill the gaps that were beginning to show as the march
of technology, and even moreso, law left the fifteen-year-old document behind. The FSF is soliciting comments from the public on the changes in GPLv3, so go ahead and
tell them what you think.[Via Slashdot]












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