Drafting GPL3

johns writes "In an article released yesterday, Eben Moglen and Richard Stallman outline four purposes of the GPL, to explain the guideposts they will use in drafting GPL3: the GPL is a worldwide copyright license, the code of conduct for free software distributors, the constitution of the free software movement, and the literary work of RMS. They also make this commitment: 'The Foundation will, before it emits a first discussion draft, publicize the process by which it intends to gather opinions and suggestions.'"

Comments

Things I would fix in GPL3

[Anonymous Coward]

I would definitely fix the long load times and maybe make it not so dark all the time and maybe more outdoor levels.

Same old GNU/God Complex

[Michalson]

1 of the 4 listed purposes of the GPL is "The GPL is the Literary Work of Richard M. Stallman" (which explains how the glory of Stallman is the lighting beacon of freedom). Does this guys ego ever take a break?

GPL V3 Addition: Section 13

[dduardo]

All your base belong to us.

Re:What happens with deceased people's code?

[Anonymous Coward]

Will I inherit granny's 200,000 lines of code?

Your grandmother has certainly written a lot of code...

This is a question for the ages

[Anonymous Coward]

Some believe that granny's code is gone forever, only to be remembered in the minds of her living friends and relatives. Others believe that granny's code will be judged for soundness and proper comments and that her code may ascend to heaven, purgatory, or various levels of hell. Still others believe that granny's code will be checked into by a universal source code control system that controls a cosmic repository where all code from everyone who has ever lived resides.

New for version 3

[Lord Bitman]

I think there should be customizable skins, those make everything better.

Re:What happens with deceased people's code?

[Shadow Wrought]

Will I inherit granny's 200,000 lines of code?

Yes, but you won't get the $10 mil until you debug it;-)

Re:translating GPL

[hazee]

On the contrary, if they translated it to a language that had a clear distinction between free (as in beer) and free (as in speech), then that alone could save untold amounts of confusion.

Sneak Preview of one of the clauses

[dwalsh]

"23(a): Permission for all uses of this copyrighted work are granted to Microsoft Corporation (new sponsors of the Free Software Foundation), and they are exempt from all requirements in this licence agreement."

This may cause disquiet among developers who used the "either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version." clause.