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Moglen's Plans to Upgrade the GPL

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the keeping-pace-with-the-times dept.

Nick Irelan writes "Although it most certainly won't be easy, Eben Moglen is attempting to upgrade the GPL. He sees an opportunity to create a version of the GPL that will be able to adequately suit the needs of modern programmers. If they are implemented, his ideas will be the first major change the GPL has experienced since Richard Stallman wrote the original version. Eweek has an amazing article about Moglen's work. Linus Torvalds discussed what he believes should happen to the GPL with Eweek as well."

4 of 411 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I can't see this helping... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Damn. The GPL is unAmerican. If you support the GPL you support terrorism.

    damn

  2. How 'bout by eclectro · · Score: -1, Troll

    Let's dump the whole GNU/Linux nonsense and make it part of the license that you have the "freedom" to call your project whatever you want unconditionally.

    oh wait - Stallman is still alive.

    --
    Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
  3. Interesting thing about the GPL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you use GPL, FSF can arbitrarily change the GPL to anything they want at anytime. Even if the new licensing terms are diametric to anything you wanted or intended. For instance they can retroactively change all the GPL licenses to be a BSD style license. When that happens, users have a choice of the new or original license terms but you may not have wanted them to have that choice.

  4. Re:How does he learn this stuff? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ha-bloody-ha.

    Possibly the most unfunny post on Slashdot in recent years. At least the GNAA's don't seem to take themselves seriouslt.