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GPLv3 Released

Posted by Zonk on from the clarity-for-the-sake-of-it dept.

A GNU Dawn writes "The GPL v3 has just been released. Among other things, the released version grandfathers in the Novell deal so that Microsoft's SLES coupons will undermine their patent threats, replaces references to the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act with more specific language, and clarifies that using BitTorrent to convey a GPLed work is not a breach of the license (it might be one, technically, in GPLv2). The GPL FAQ has been updated to cover the new changes." Commentary is available over at Linux.com (which is owned, along with Slashdot, by Sourceforge).

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  1. is this the license that bans DRM? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Because if it is then I can't use it ;-)

    Sorry guys, but I operate in the real world.

    1. Re:is this the license that bans DRM? by TheGreek · · Score: -1, Troll

      See, what you view as "the real world" will soon become "the corporation-dominated world". But we'll live in whatever's left of the free world.
      Do you use spydermann.slashdot@gmail.com to bemoan the "corporation-dominated world" to all of your friends?

      The G in Gmail doesn't stand for GNU, by the way.
    2. Re:is this the license that bans DRM? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      pffff.

      A corporation pays me to code. All that the GPL V3 does is make GPLing my code that much less attractive.

      Your 'free' world strikes me as delustional. I'll take the real world over a child's fantasy any day.

      Nobody will use GPL V3 because everybody knows better.

  2. Re:Yeah, but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    No....YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!!!

    IT's: Does it run linux? I would like to know because I am a stupid, greasy, /. open source loving faggot who has nothing to do all day but right really biased blog entries about things that aren't open source, such as M$. I want to suck Richard Stallman's hairy smelly cock!

    8=================D~~~~~

    FUCK YOU /.

    DEATH TO SLASHDOT!!

  3. Idea for GPL v4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    How about for GPLv4, GNU adopt a mascot that isn't a turd in tricorn hat?

  4. This will kill Linux by The_Abortionist · · Score: -1, Troll

    No wonder Linus T. is dead set against GPL v3.

    It won't take long before Microsoft makes it illegal to download and run copies of Linux if this goes ahead. At least in the US...

    For one thing, the GPL v3 does not address the 235 Microsoft patent violation present in Linux.

    Oh well, it had a good run. RIP.

    --
    Linux violates 235 Microsoft patents.
  5. Re:Holiness Unto the Prophet by WED+Fan · · Score: 1, Troll

    Please, allow me to correct you, you apostate sectarian:

    GNU/Sainthood in the GNU/Church of Emacs requires living a GNU/life of GNU/purity--but in the GNU/Church of Emacs, this does not require GNU/celibacy (a sigh of relief is heard). Being GNU/holy in our GNU/church means installing a wholly GNU/free GNU/operating GNU/system--GNU/Linux is a good choice--and not putting any non-free software on your computer. Join the GNU/Church of Emacs, and you too can be a GNU/saint!

    The GNU/Holy Writ proclaims that you are GNU/Free to accept the Prophet's, Holiness Issues From His Orifices, version of GNU/Freedom. That is, you become GNU/Free from GNU/Choice.

    Jihad on apostates and infidels.

    --
    Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
  6. Re:tivoisation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Allow me to make some introductions: Peter, meet BSD. BSD, meet Peter.

    Oh yes, GPL3 anti-Tivoisation clause, meet irrelevance and backlash.

  7. Slow news day by qualidafial · · Score: 0, Troll
    GPL license... is anybody still using that?

    Another slow news day on Slashdot.