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2005: New GNU General Public License Coming


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by Blane Warrene

Earlier this week eWeek ran a story on the efforts to update the GNU General Public License to version 3 sometime in 2005. The GPL, at version 2 since 1991 is maintained by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation.

The FSF hopes to evolve the license, preserving the integrity of its framework and open source philosophy while attending to more modern concerns of copyright and patent law globally. The FSF plans to seek public comments on the forthcoming changes.

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 25th, 2004 at 9:56 am, contains 79 words, and is filed under Open Source. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. The views and opinions in this blog post are those of its author.

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  1. Nikobass Says:
    November 29th, 2004 at 10:46 am

    Could be geat to update it with fresh stuff. It’s 13 years old already!

     

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Blane is a writer and researcher focusing on Apple and Open Source technologies. Prior to this, he helped found a commercial software and consulting venture, and worked in the financial services sector as a director of technology and in varying technical roles. Blane maintains Open Sourcery: SitePoint's Open Source Blog.

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