Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 29th Jun 2007 23:09 UTC, submitted by thebluesgnr
The FSF today released version 3 of the GNU GPL, the popular free software license. "Since we founded the free software movement, over 23 years ago, the free software community has developed thousands of useful programs that respect the user's freedom. The programs are in the GNU/Linux operating system, as well as personal computers, telephones, Internet servers, and more. Most of these programs use the GNU GPL to guarantee every user the freedom to run, study, adapt, improve, and redistribute the program," said Richard Stallman, founder and president of the FSF. This article has some interesting replies from the BSD community (right in the middle).
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2005-12-02
"Which is flat out wrong. First, they only waive rights on the specific patents exercised in the GPLv3 works they distribute. They don't become public property. Rather, sub-licenses are granted to recipients of derivative works."
I do believe you are correct after re-reading it through. Apparently I missed a couple words when I read through it the first time.