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The Free Software Foundation says that a third discussion draft of GPLv3 will be released on Wed., March 28 at 10 a.m. EST, together with a rationale document.
The draft will be open for comment for 60 days, then a last call draft will be issued, which will remain open for comment for 30 days. A final will be published shortly thereafter.
The questions remain the same as they have been for two years -- dynamic linking & other interoperability issues; patents (esp. MSFT-NOVL); DRM; web services; embedded software; general opacity & ambiguity.
These are causing severe strains within the various open source communities, since the movement is by no means monolithic. It is a bit unclear how two more comment periods will resolve disputes that remain raw after two years, but hope springs eternal.
A significant hang-up is the MSFT-NOVL deal. According to open source guru Bruce Perens:
This version has an additional paragraph that addresses anyone who tries to do what Microsoft is currently doing in the Novell-Microsoft agreement. The language to address anyone who tries to do what Novell is doing is still being constructed, Eben Moglen commented to me that Richard has rejected the latest and best proposal for Novell-role language and that they will formulate new language and try again. Richard Stallman will speak in Brussels on Sunday, April 1, describing the new version.
Transcripts of prior speeches by Stallman and others are available.
posted by James DeLong @ 10:25 AM | Software
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