Free Software Foundation to Revise the GNU GPL

[LennonCook]

GPL 3 to take on IP, Patents

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.

And as Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols says, it's about time.

[philip]

Those patents ideas should be gotten out of the minds of governments. Just use copyright it's a lot better than patents. Come on they're seriously going to kill any development in software with those patents.

edit: but it's great at least the GPL is getting up to date this way.

[ 11-24-2004, 07:35 AM: Message edited by: philip ]