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Bruce Perens: A Big Change for Open Source
An appeals court has erased most of the doubt around Open Source licensing, permanently, in a decision that was extremely favorable toward projects like GNU, Creative Commons, Wikipedia, and Linux. The man who prompted that decision could be described as the worst enemy a Free Software project could have. This is the story of how our community was able to benefit from that enemy.
GPLv3: recent misleading information (Free Software Foundation. 2006-09-25)
Facts on the draft GPLv3: 1. FSF cannot compel switching from v2 to v3, 2. v3 will not contain any "use restrictions" but will prevent others distributing with use restrictions, 3. v3 moves from implicit to explicit patent license (as an anti-patent tool)
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