In praise of the GPLv3
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| When Stallman released the final draft of GPLv3 on June 1, he told me he had
| decided to include a cut-off date in paragraph 7 of section 11 of the draft
| to make it possible for Novell to continue to distribute software covered
| under GPLv3 as part of its deal with Microsoft. In other words, the man was
| being merciful to a company which has sought to pervert the GPL. He was being
| anything but a software Talib (for the uninformed that's the singular of the
| collective noun Taliban).
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13253&Itemid=1091
Also see:
Moglen: "The Global Software Industry in Transformation: After GPLv3"
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070630094005112
Talk here (needs patent-encumbered codecs to view, ironically enough):
http://www.archive.org/details/EbenMoglenLectureEdinburghJune2007StreamingVideo384kbits
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