GPLv3 Second Discussion Draft Released

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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Some more info

[H4x0r Jim Duggan]

After my submission was rejected, I figured another submission based on this story was in the queue, so I put the below links together:

• Video and audio recordings of both days of FSFE's recent international GPLv3 conference

Four transcripts which include the post-talk Q&A sessions from presentations by Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen:

• Transcript of Richard Stallman's talk from the 3rd international GPLv3 conference, Barcelona, June 22nd 2006
• Transcript of Eben Moglens's talk from the 3rd international GPLv3 conference, Barcelona, June 22nd 2006
• Transcript of Richard Stallman's talk from the 2nd international GPLv3 conference, April 21st 2006
• Transcript of Richard Stallman's GPLv3 presentation and Q and A from Torino, Italy, March 18th 2006

And two very useful docs:

• A diff from the first draft to the second
• A diff from the version two to this second draft of v3

Re:more than diff

[foregather]

If you are looking for more that fsfeurope's plain text diff, FSF is providing a strikethrough version of this second Draft, that highlights all the changed text from Draft 1, in LaTex, Postscript, and PDF

Biggest Change

[Stalyn]

The word DRM and the phrase Digital Restrictions Mangement no longer appear in the document. Instead they define a clause called "No Denying Users' Rights through Technical Measures" which is basically the new anti-DRM clause.