(Correction in progress. I wrongly announced the release of the second discussion draft but the final version was actually released.) FSF have just published the 2nd draft of the GNU Affero GPL. The GNU Affero GPL will be a modified version of GPLv3. The difference, very roughly, is that it includes a requirement that if Read more »
After an interesting free software licensing event in Helsinki yesterday, I got thinking about licence complexity. At the conference, people had two types of questions (a) Why didn’t GPLv3 additionally solve X problem? and (b) Why is it so long? In my presentation, predictably, I gave GPLv3 two thumbs up: Slides: Free Software Licences, For Read more »
Just finished some travel planning. On October 25th, I’ll be at a Helsinki-based free software licensing event. Getting to and from Helsinki is much harder than I’d’ve expected, but it’s all worked out now. And on October 27th, I’ll be at Florence [GNU/]Linux Day. Afterward, I’ll go to Pisa to meet some of the local Read more »
I recently read the discussion on the GCC development mailing list related to GCC’s transition to GPLv3. Despite generating 172 emails, the transition was quite smooth actually. I decided to read about GCC’s transition because I wanted to investigate a (false) claim which Slashdot featured on their front page. Slashdot’s story, which I now know Read more »
InformationWeek have posted a follow-up article. In trying to respond to recent criticism about misrepresenting facts regarding Linus Torvalds and GPLv3, InformationWeek has managed to show exactly how incorrect their first article was. Their misleading GPLv3 article from last week drew criticism for using false evidence to suggest that Linus is on a new anti-GPLv3 Read more »
LINUS CALLS GPLv3 "A FINE CHOICE" – is a title that InformationWeek could have used for their article. It would have been very selective quoting, but that doesn’t seem to be a problem for InformationWeek. Nor does pretending that old emails are new emails, or misrepresenting people. In reality, there is no news. Their article Read more »
After a year and a half, GPLv3 is finally due this Friday, June 29th. Starting with the January 2006, our focus in FSFE has on raising awareness and informing the free software community. Making transcripts of the January 16th launch and RMS’s first GPLv3 presentations and getting them on Slashdot was a good start. We Read more »
The GPLv3 process has entered it’s final stage with FSF releasing GPLv3 discussion draft 4. Some particularly good news is that this draft is finally compatible with the Apache licence. Accompanying this "last call draft" is: An essay by RMS: Why Upgrade to GPL Version 3 The rationale document of the changes The press release Read more »
A transcript is now online of: RMS’s April 1st GPLv3 talk. Audio and video recordings will be online later today. Topics covered in the talk include: What is Free Software? The GNU project Free Software licences Internationalisation Tivoisation Tivoisation – the limits in draft 3 Deflating the EUCD and DMCA Novell, Microsoft, and patents Termination Read more »
The text of discussion draft 3 The rationale for the changes in this draft (PDF) A diff of the changes in this draft (PDF) The official GPLv3 web portal FSFE’s GPLv3 project page