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Guidelines for GPLv3 Process Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the legal-mumbo-jumbo dept.

Justin Baugh writes "The Free Software Foundation and the Software Freedom Law Center have released a document detailing the guidelines and the process that will be used for revising the GNU GPL, and have launched a new website related to the V3 process. It was announced in a press release this morning that the FSF will be releasing the first discussion draft of the new license for comments at the International Public Conference for GPLv3 at MIT on January 16 and 17, 2006."

2 of 147 comments (clear)

  1. New Clause by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Little-discussed new clause in GPLv3:

    "Every program licensed under this license must contain the phrase 'Micro$oft sux0rs!!!1' somewhere in the source code and/or documentation."

  2. Yes, but... by seguso · · Score: 1, Funny

    > Guidelines for GPLv3 Process Released Yes, but under what license are they?