With all the current copyright and patent shanghaiing going over the last few years in Europe and US, I guess the GPL finally needed to be revised. This revision of the GPL could affect thousands of open source products that use this license.
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Rewriting GPL No Easy Task (Article)
eWeek reports: "In 1991, Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, rewrote the GNU General Public License and simply put the final version out over e-mail; that was the last time the GPL has seen significant change."
With all the current copyright and patent shanghaiing going over the last few years in Europe and US, I guess the GPL finally needed to be revised. This revision of the GPL could affect thousands of open source products that use this license.
Long Live Open-Source...
With all the current copyright and patent shanghaiing going over the last few years in Europe and US, I guess the GPL finally needed to be revised. This revision of the GPL could affect thousands of open source products that use this license.
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