Actually, the cost of building a space telescope is enormous. I think the budget for Hubble was somethink around $US 1 billion , the same as ALMA(http://www.eso.org/projects/alma/) or the VLT(http://www.eso.org/paranal/) even though Hubble is a very small telescope. And since the main problem with surface telescopes( athmosphere's refraction) has been overcome using active optics, i don't think it's necessary to put another space telescope.
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So they actually want to build an array in space
Actually, the cost of building a space telescope is enormous. I think the budget for Hubble was somethink around $US 1 billion , the same as ALMA(http://www.eso.org/projects/alma/) or the VLT(http://www.eso.org/paranal/) even though Hubble is a very small telescope. And since the main problem with surface telescopes( athmosphere's refraction) has been overcome using active optics, i don't think it's necessary to put another space telescope.
It seems that perhaps this is the direction that the GPL 2 drafters have in mind?
I think you mean GPL3, GPL 2 is what we're using now.
And by the way, it's not GPL2006 either, since there is no agreement on the release date yet.