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* cpc2-tall3-6-0-cust85.dbln.cable.ntl.com GPLv3 press releaseMon, 23 Jan 2006 08:00:02 -0000
WORLD #1 FREE SOFTWARE LICENSE, THE GPL, TO BE REVISED IN A PUBLIC
PROCESS WELCOMED BY IRISH FREE SOFTWARE ORGANISATION
+ 23 January 2006. A year-long public consultation has begun on the
+ re-drafting of the most widely used Free Software licence: the GNU
+ General Public Licence, known as the GPL.
- January 20th. A year-long public consultation process has begun for
- the drafting of the third version of the most widely used Free
- Software license: the GNU General Public License -- "the GPL".
+ The process was launched by the Free Software Foundation at an
+ International Public Conference at MIT Boston, USA with first
+ public draft text of version three of the GPL and the opening of a
+ discussion forum. It is planned that the final version of GPLv3 will
+ be released by March 2007.
- Free Software Foundation, the ??KEEPER?? of the GPL, launched the
- process by publishing their draft of version 3, and by opening their
- discussion forum for accepting comments.
+ Since the GPL's last revision more than 15 years ago, software
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