Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Mar 2007 21:02 UTC, submitted by Ali Davoodifar
The FSF has released the third draft of the revised third version of the GNU General Public License. Some of the changes in the new draft, such as the increased clarification and legal language, or the housekeeping changes that reflect new aspects of the license are likely to be accepted. However, the license also includes a new approach to the controversial issue of lock-down technologies as well as more explicit language about patents, including language designed to prevent a re-occurrence of agreements such as the one that Novell entered into with Microsoft - all of which is apt to kindle heated debate as the revision process enters its final stages after fifteen months of intensive work.
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The kernel is its own beast. Changes cant be made whether Linus wants to or not. As for the rest, you dont know how many people are going to be against this GPLv3 draft since it just came out. This one seems to be a lot more even handed than the last. Theyve taken out hardware restrictions and talk completely about the software. As for forking, that will depend on the major distributions. Few will adopt GPL3 on their software if it means they will automatically get forked (for the most part)