The Free Software Foundation
(FSF) and the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) today released a document
specifying the process and guidelines for revising the Foundation's GNU
General Public License (GNU GPL). The FSF will release the first discussion
draft of the new license for comment at the International Public Conference
for GPLv3 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on January 16 and
17, 2006.
The GNU GPL is the most widely used Free Software license worldwide:
Almost three quarters of all Free Software programs (also known as Free and
Open Source Software, or FOSS) are distributed under this license. Since the
GPL's last revision more than 15 years ago,
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