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GPLv3 Second Discussion Draft Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the revisions-are-fun dept.

thppft! writes "The second discussion draft of the GNU General Public License version 3 was released, along with the first discussion draft of the GNU Lesser General Public License. Along with the text for the licenses , the GPLv3 website also includes an introduction by Eben Moglen along with markup changes to the rationale and the GPL itself."

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  1. v3, eh? by mobby_6kl · · Score: 1, Funny

    What, did they fix all the bugs in the previous version already?

    1. Re:v3, eh? by P0ldy · · Score: 1, Funny

      No, but they're expecting to take care of that with a service pack to v3.

  2. Re:Dear Slashdot by ameoba · · Score: 3, Funny

    You must be new here - nobody ever actually reads the articles.

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  3. Re:more than diff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Do you have a doc file of it?

  4. Treacherous by wiredlogic · · Score: 4, Funny

    *2 DRM becomes nastier when based on Treacherous Computing and other changes
    in computer hardware which deny users the possibility of running modified or alternate
    programs.

    It looks like they had RMS personally writing the footnotes for this one.

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