GPL 3.0 to Penalize Google, Amazon?

Michael Ferris writes "Is this the start of a shakedown by the GNU folks? Michael Singer writes that Eben Moglen and the folks rewriting the GPL are looking at a proposal where companies would be required to pay money if they use GPLed software, even if they don't redistribute the software." From the article: "The current version of the GPL, which was last updated in 1991, fails to trigger the open source license if a company alters the code, but does not distribute its software through a CD or floppy disk...the [current] rule does not apply to companies that distribute software as a service, such as Google and eBay, or even dual-license companies like Sleepycat."

Comments

THERE IS NO MENTION OF MONEY IN THE ARTICLE

[dynamo]

I would like to think that the story submitter would have read the article, but nope.

Wait, isn't today the 8th?

[Mr. Underbridge]

April fools is over. This is dogshit stupid.

Re:Sensationalism at its finest

[CarrionBird]

Seems like further evidence that the FSF types are fighting a war against commercial interests, despite how much they deny it.