GPLv3 Discussion Launches
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.
