Guidelines for GPLv3 Process Released

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."

Comments

Re:Still a bit wary of one element of the GPL

[Tim C]

While I don't doubt what you say, and don't suppose for a moment that the FSF would ever go rogue, here's a little thought experiment - would it be possible to slightly alter section 9, perhaps over a number of revisions of the GPL, such that eventually the wording allowed for wholesale changes to the licence? As long as each revision is itself similar in spirit, they should be okay, and of course with each passing revision the amount of similarity required would drop.

Not saying they'd ever do this, just wondering if it would be possible.