GPL v3 Draft Revives License Debate

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GPL v3 Draft Revives License Debate

... there has already been much debate within the free and open-source community over the first discussion draft of the GNU GPL (General Public License) Version 3, which was written by Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation, and Eben Moglen, the foundation's general counsel. The draft was released in January.

The fact that each provision and term and the very wording of the proposed new license are coming under such scrutiny underscores just how importantly the community views this draft. After all, this is the first revision in 15 years of the GPL 2 license, which governs more free and open-source software than any other license. The final version of the license is expected to be released in January 2007.

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GPL v3 Draft Moves Forward, Torvalds Unimpressed
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
July 27, 2006

On July 27, the FSF (Free Software Foundation) and the SFLC (Software Freedom Law Center) released the next discussion draft of the GNU GPL (General Public License) version 3.

In addition, the groups released the first draft of the revised GNU LGPL (Lesser General Public License) version 3.

Since the release of the initial GPLv3 discussion draft in January, members of the free software community have submitted nearly one thousand suggestions for its improvement.

eWEEK.com Special Report: Open-Source Licensing

With the help of discussion committees, the FSF and the SFLC have taken these comments into consideration and have implemented revisions to the draft.

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