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RMS Previews GPL3 Terms

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the looking-ahead dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In a recent interview, ESR shocked a lot of people when he said, 'We don't need the GPL anymore.' Federico Biancuzzi contacted RMS, founder of the Free Software Movement and initial developer of the GNU system, to talk about the past, the present, and the future of the GNU GPL. Among other things, they discussed the new clauses of the upcoming GPL version 3."

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  1. Re:Recognizing the need for the GPL... by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Of course. Copyright is only bad when it comes to getting free stuff on P2P without paying for it. The freedom of copyright holders only gets trampled on when it's GPL software getting ripped off, not anything else. Legal action is absolutely called for only when it's GPL code getting "stolen," but protecting anything else is evil and "greedy."

    Didn't you know?

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  2. Moral relativism and power by Frank+T.+Lofaro+Jr. · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    1. Moral relativism ends when it comes to moral relativism compared to anything else. Moral relativism isn't subject to itself, at least in practice.

    2. The 100 record executives have support of the government, which has massive firepower. The people unfortunately don't.

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