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Anti-DRM day to debut next month
News The issue has also caused vigorous debate in the run-up to the third version of the General Public License (GPL), the document - currently being revised by the FSF - which underpins much of the open source movement. [04 Sep 2006]
GPLv3 gets public airing
News The forum, held on Tuesday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, represents one of the first steps of what is expected to be a year-long debate over the updated GPL. Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), proposed... [18 Jan 2006]
Open source overhaul: GPLv3 on the way
News A major revamp of the General Public License (GPL) is scheduled for public release next week, a move that's expected to kick off a long and vocal debate over the key foundation of open source programming. [12 Jan 2006]
Opening the Open Source Debate
White Paper The general public license (GPL) has many risks, but the greatest is its threat to the cooperation between different parties who collaborate and create new technologies. Conversely, the GPL represents divergence; proposing to remove the current... [30 Aug 2005]
Dispelling Myths About the GPL and Free Software
White Paper The common thread among all these critics and all their arguments seems to be that software companies and governments should avoid free software, particularly anything licensed under the GPL. The report "Opening the Open Source Debate" generally... [23 Aug 2005]
CollabNet: Bringing open source to the rest of us
Comment Brian Behlendorf, founder and CTO, told silicon.com in a recent interview that from the beginning the company's mission "was not specifically about releasing software under the GPL.but about taking what works about open source to everybody". [15 Nov 2004]
