The Free Software Foundation released the final draft of an updated General Public License on Thursday, a draft that prohibits future deals similar to the Microsoft-Novell patent pact but lets that one go ahead.

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QotD: FSF on Apache License 2.0 compatibility

Saturday, June 02, 2007

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robilad: QotD: FSF on Apache License 2.0 compatibility

Thursday, May 31, 2007

QoTD, indeed: "We are pleased to report that the Final Draft makes the Apache License, version 2.0, fully compatible with GPLv3. We are grateful to the Apache Software Foundation for working with us to achieve this long-sought goal."

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IT Manager's Journal :: Eight common misunderstandings about GPLv3

Saturday, May 12, 2007

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Groklaw - FSF's Brett Smith Answers Your GPLv3 Questions

Sunday, May 06, 2007

've roughly organized the questions by topic: they start out discussing the drafting process, move on to the more significant changes in draft 3 such as lockdown and patent terms, and then more specific, nitty-gritty questions. I've also done some slight

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FSF - Licenses

Friday, April 13, 2007

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FSF releases third draft of GPLv3 for discussion

Friday, March 30, 2007

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today released the third discussion draft for version 3 of the most widely used free software license, the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL).

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GPLv3 Discussion Draft FAQ

Friday, March 30, 2007

Answers to common questions about the latest GPLv3 draft

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Torvalds 'pretty pleased' about new GPL 3 draft | News.blog | CNET News.com

Friday, March 30, 2007

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» Sun becomes a patron of the Free Software Foundation | Ed Burnette’s Dev Connection | ZDNet.com

Monday, March 05, 2007

This isn't correct. People won't assign copyrights to Sun if Sun is going to take the code and use it in proprietary software.

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Software Liberation Front

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

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GPLv3: What the Hackers Said (Update) | Linux Journal

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

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FSF - Licenses

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Good summary of open-source (and non-open source) licences and their respective merits

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Torvalds "fed up" with the FSF

Saturday, November 04, 2006

On Friday Several kernel developers issued a position paper criticizing the GPLv3 drafts. That prompted Software Freedom Law Center (SLFC) chairman Eben Moglen to issue a "renewed invitation" yesterday to kernel developers to participate in the GPLv3 proc

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» Tivo and GPL: Beauty and the Beast? | Ed Burnette’s Dev Connection | ZDNet.com

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

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LWN: Kernel developers' position on GPLv3

Sunday, September 24, 2006

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LWN: Kernel developers' position on GPLv3

Sunday, September 24, 2006

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LWN: Kernel developers' position on GPLv3

Friday, September 22, 2006

the aforementioned Kernel developers' position piece on GPLv3

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LWN: Kernel developers' position on GPLv3

Friday, September 22, 2006

the aforementioned Kernel developers' position piece on GPLv3

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NewsForge | Stallman, Torvalds, Moglen share views on DRM and GPLv3

Thursday, August 10, 2006

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SOB: Scion Of Backronymics » MS: Freedom is Slavery; FSF: Slavery is Freedom

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Which will it be: Microsoft's corrupt capitalism or FSF's totalitarian communism?

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GPLv3 Process Definition — GPLv3

Sunday, March 26, 2006

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Rationale Document — GPLv3

Sunday, March 26, 2006

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Discussion Committees — GPLv3

Sunday, March 26, 2006

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Sunday, March 26, 2006

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open...: Why the GPL Doesn't Need a Test Case

Thursday, March 23, 2006

There was an amusing story in Groklaw yesterday, detailing the sorry end of utterly pointless legal action taken against the Free Software Foundation (FSF) on the grounds that

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