I'm at MIT for the opening of discussions on the GPLv3, the third version of the Free Software Foundation's tremendously successful "copyleft" license.

The first draft is open for comments, with a web infrastructure to collect reactions and use those in updating the draft.

The license builds on the core of GPL, preserving software freedom: freedom for users to tinker, modify, and redistribute the software they receive. To that, v3 adds an anti-DRM provision, that the GPL "does not assist user disablement," as Eben Moglen put it. Additional changes would make the license compatible with more other open source licenses; give users greater freedom to grant additional permissions; and protect against he encubrance of Free Software with software patents.

I look forward to participating in a lively discussion.