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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 
    ... URL: http://www.ifso.ie/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/GPLv3_press_release?action=diff



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