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GPL 3.0 Rewrite Drive Is No Democracy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ratification-would-be-a-real-bitch dept.

linumax writes "Users will be free to comment on the upcoming complex and technical draft versions of the GNU General Public License 3.0 in an easy way, according to Eben Moglen, general counsel for the Free Software Foundation. However, Moglen said Wednesday, speaking at the Open Source Business Conference here, the rewrite of the GPL is not an election and there will be no voting on its clauses. In a session entitled GPL 3.0: Directions, Implications, Casualties, Moglen said that when GPL 2.0 was promulgated some 14 years ago, very few people cared about it. On the advice of a few dozen people and a couple of lawyers, it was written and released. "That was a fine system then. It is not a fine system now. I expect the process around GPL 3.0, when it begins in some 60 to 90 days' time, to collect a great deal of comment from people on the draft documents... ", He said."

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  1. Why would it be a democracy? by winkydink · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everybody knows those GNU people are a bunch of Commies. :)

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    "I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey

  2. Wait wait wait... by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 5, Funny

    does that mean that the GPL is *NOT* open source? (you can see but you can't touch)?

    But... I thought... GPL... open... *HEAD EXPLODES*

  3. Rewrite Drive by foQ · · Score: 5, Funny

    When I saw this article I thought there was some new GPLed DVD R/W drive or something.

  4. So the two groups actually worked together? by lightspawn · · Score: 4, Funny

    On the advice of a few dozen people and a couple of lawyers, it was written and released.

    Wow, both people and lawyers...