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GPL 3 Launch Date Announced

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday June 27, 2007 @10:02AM 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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Re:Interesting date to choose... by Alphager · 2007-06-27 10:11 · Score: 5, Insightful

The FSF is not about pleasing everyone. It is about solely furthering the goals of Free Software (not Open Source, not Linux). They will succeed in that.