The fourth-and-last discussion draft of GPLv3 was released last week. The plan is to continue the public consultation until June 29th and then finally release the official GPLv3. So, if you might have a comment, take a look asap.
The text of discussion draft 4 can be seen here: http://gplv3.fsf.org/comments/gplv3-draft-4.html And that's also the page where you can make a comment. You first make an account, and then you can highlight a piece of text, press 'c', and enter your comment in the box that appears. For an explanation of what's changed, here's one of Stallman's presentations: http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/brussels-rms-transcript And here's a FAQ explaining some parts, such as the exception to tivoisation, in more detail: http://gplv3.fsf.org/dd3-faq And some other links, in case the above isn't news. Creative Commons look to have dropped some of the licences so that the remaining licences all permit non-commercial redistribution: http://creativecommons.org/retiredlicenses Xandros seem to have made a very stupid patent deal with Microsoft: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070604183519938 (It's like the Novell one, but Xandros are dumber since the dated clause in GPLv3 that exempts Novell will not also exempt Xandros.) GNU Emacs 22 was finally released: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2007-06/msg00000.html http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/ -- Ciarán O'Riordan __________________ \ http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3 http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _________ \ GPLv3 and other work supported by http://fsfe.org/fellows/ciaran/weblog \ Fellowship: http://www.fsfe.org _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
