Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Jul 2006 21:55 UTC
"The second discussion draft of the GNU General Public License version 3 was released on 2006 July 27, along with the first discussion draft of the GNU Lesser General Public License." Included are audio introductions by Eben Moglen. Update: Torvalds, after looking at the draft, wasn't impressed.
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You forget that it is the licensee who ultimately decides which licensing form becomes dominant. It's the licensee who has the power to say no.
A software developer/vendor can only hope that his wares will be accepted, not force it. If all end-users said "GPL or Burst" tomorrow, a developer only would have the choice of going GPL or be stuck with software nobody wants.
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2005-11-15
I find it distressing that very decent OSS projects are harshly encouraged to adopt the very restrictive terms of GPL3. There are a small number of GPL zealots who trash good projects soley on licensing terms. There's a very good reason why Linus is sticking with GPL2.
When idealism becomes blind ideology it becomes a bad thing. GPL3 is a bad thing.