On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 11:57, Luchezar Georgiev wrote: > Do you remember the "executable compression" thread started here by the > GNU GPL guru Dave Turner? Here is what I found at his site > (http://web.novalis.org/history-of-fsm/slide-47.html): > > Sept 3, 2003 Free Software Licensing in Context GPL version 3 > > A new version of the GPL is coming > Real Soon Now > * Minor updates throughout > * Anti-DMCA clause > * Clarified patent license grant > * Source code must be available to users who use the software over a > network > * Prototype: Affero license (http://www.affero.org/oagpl.html) > > Copyright © 2003, Free Software Foundation. Verbatim copying permitted > provided this notice is preserved. > > Indeed, it's known that R. M. Stallman has been writing the GNU GPL > Version 3 for many months:
Yes, Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen, and many others have been working on the draft. > On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 18:02:56 -0400 Richard Stallman wrote: > > > I intend to make the effort some day, but first I have to finish GPL > > version 3, which faces other difficult questions. > > The GPL Version 2 was written almost 13 years ago and as we have seen, > really needs updating. So, my question to Dave Turner and anymore else > involved in the "kitchen" of the FSF, is: will this happen in 2004, when > can we expect it to happen, and do the quotes above still hold true? As far as I know, they're still accurate. The only thing that should perhaps be added is "addresses Trusted Computing." GPLv3 will be released for review when it's done, and no sooner. I can't give you a firm date on that. Real Soon Now is tongue-in-cheek: FSF sometimes moves more slowly than people would like, but it's because we try to do things right. As you may have noticed, our hastiness on the Apache license led to unnecessary anger on many sides. We don't want that to happen in the future. -- -Dave Turner GPL Compliance Engineer Support my work: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=novalis&p=FSF ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
