11-24-2004, 04:50 AM
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Jack Burton 
Join Date: November 10, 2001
Location: Bathurst & Orange, in constant flux
Age: 38
Posts: 5,452
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GPL 3 to take on IP, Patents
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The GPL, the most widely used free-software license, was created by FSF founder Richard Stallman, who last updated it in 1991. The changes planned for the next release, Version 3, a draft of which is due next year, focus on several broad topics that reflect the dynamic change in the software industry since the early 1990s—intellectual property licensing and patent issues, the question of how to deal with software used over a network, and concerns around trusted computing.
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And as Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols says, it's about time.
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