GPL Version 3 Hits The Home Stretch

Morshad published 28 Jun 2007, 18:31 in main - 229 views

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On June 29th all that work culminates with the release of the final draft.

Whereas over the last 18 months we've had a lot of debate about what goes into the license, after June 29th the noise will be about why to use it and who is using it.

There is little doubt that for the foreseeable future we will live in a world in which there are both GPL version 2 and version 3 applications. There is little doubt that the two similar, yet incompatible, licenses will cause confusion for projects, developers and users as they navigate the licensing minefield.

The Free Software Foundation has not indicated whether it would retire the GPL version 2 at any point -- not that I think it could, even if it wanted to. Fundamentally, the GPL has always been about Freedom. With the third license, patent and DRM freedoms are key, though they may not be for everyone, and they likely aren't for Linux users.

News source: IT Management

Tags: GPL Version 3, GPL

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