Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 16th Jan 2006 19:52 UTC, submitted by anonymous
The Free Software Foundation has published the first draft of the GPL v3, the successor to the most popular open source license. The rationale behind some of the changes are here, while comments are here. Danese Cooper of OSI has posted her comments too. Update: Stallman: "We've partly removed the inconveniences of preventing a user from combining code from various free software packages." More here.
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2005-11-14
The point of releasing code as free software, according to the FSF, is that software should be free. That's why the GPL exists.
The GPL is not a good license to use if you don't think all software should be free, that is, if you believe some software should restrict what people can do with them. If you believe that then GPL licensed software is not for you, and it never will be.