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Guidelines for GPLv3 Process Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday November 30, 2005 @01:29AM 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."

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Re:Who would of thought by LiquidCoooled · 2005-11-30 02:16 · Score: 5, Insightful

The GPL is not giving your code away for free.

The GPL is a license to ensure that your code and other code built using it remains open and usable by others.

Just giving the code away for free would allow an evil company to take somebodies hard work and lock it up in an exe shell with a squad of lawyers protecting the source.

Public Domain is noble but not wise.

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