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GPL 3 Launch Date Announced

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the full-speed-ahead dept.

Joe Blakesley writes "Today, the Free Software Foundation announced that version 3 of the GNU General Public License will be released on Friday, June 29 at noon (EDT). Live video footage of the GPL's unveiling by Richard M. Stallman will be available as a stream on the FSF's website."

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  1. Interesting date to choose... by onemorehour · · Score: 4, Funny

    GPL v3 + iPhone in one day = collective nerdgasm?

  2. How are they going to unveil it? by ChrisMounce · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, it isn't a physical object. Print it out and frame it? Throw copies into the crowd? A reading by Stallman himself (followed by a license signing)?

    1. Re:How are they going to unveil it? by heinousjay · · Score: 5, Funny

      A reading by Stallman himself (followed by a license signing)?

      If you could somehow bottle that concept you would cure insomnia the world over.

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    2. Re:How are they going to unveil it? by Fozzyuw · · Score: 4, Funny

      ...then lift the veil, and there it is!

      At which time a large audible *gasp* from the crowd, and sweeping pan of the aforementioned veiled area shows that, in-fact, the GPL has been STOLEN! An audible laughter is heard over the loud speakers...

      In A.D. 2007, GPL3 was beginning.

      Stallman: What happen ?
      Mechanic: Somebody set up us the iPhone.
      Operator: We get signal.
      Stallman: What !
      Operator: Main screen turn on.
      Stallman: It's you !!
      JOBS: How are you gentlemen !!
      JOBS: All your publicity are belong to us.
      JOBS: You are on the way to destruction.
      Stallman: What you say !!
      JOBS: You have no chance to survive make your time.
      JOBS: Ha Ha Ha Ha ....
      Operator: Stallman !! *
      Stallman: Take off every 'Zig' !!
      Stallman: You know what you doing.
      Stallman: Move 'Zig'.
      Stallman: For great justice.

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  3. Re:Timing by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know about anyone else, but I plan to camp out all night in front of the FSF so I can be the first to get a copy of the final version of the GPLv3. Then I'm going to sell it on eBay.

  4. SP1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm going to wait for SP1 before I upgrade.

  5. Tattoo by athloi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gotta update my tattoo, Which was the GPL-2, But from the looks of v3, Should be hours of agony!

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    1. Re:Tattoo by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 4, Funny

      Hah! See what you get for not including that "And any later version" language.

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