MIT lecture room 10-250 in Boston just saw the release of the the first discussion draft for version 3 of the world’s first Copyleft and most used Free Software license, the GNU General Public License (GPL).
As expected, it contains provisions for additional compatibility with other Copyleft licenses, language against Digital Restriction Management (DRM), an explicit software patent license grant, a (very limited) software patent retaliation clause, and distributed/web services.
It also tries to address the issue of difference Copyright regimes by introducing "propagate" as a new term that is generally not used and not subject to different Copyright regimes, as "distribute" is.
If you are interested, you’ll find the GPLv3 discussion draft online and can leave comments and suggestions online.
