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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."

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  1. GPL vs CDDL, MPL, BSD by vettemph · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I find it a little odd that certain variations of the GPL are renamed to show that they ARE NOT the GPL that everyone is used to (CDDL, MPL BSD etc...) but that a change in the "THEE" GPL keeps the same three letter acronym even though it is not the same GPL that you are used to. I realise that a person can specify the version of GPL but why be ambiguous?
      Also, in the spirit of freedom, efficiency and 'less government' shouldn't the main goal of editing the GPL be reducing the word count and removing all lawyer speek (if there was any)?

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  2. mo3 up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I 5se the same rules to follow

  3. bi2Natch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

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