http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/07/27/gpl-v3-new-draft-released/ Ramblings on software, law, and the spaces in between. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:08:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/07/27/gpl-v3-new-draft-released/comment-page-1/#comment-1657 BC Law IPTF Blog » Blog Archive » FSF Releases GPLv3 Discussion Draft Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:05:01 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/07/27/gpl-v3-new-draft-released/#comment-1657 [...] Luis Villa provides some links to this release, and the Center for the Study of Digital Property goes in-depth and explains the changes. The main substantive change seems to be in preventing DRM from restricting the sharing or modification of GPL software. In other words you can protect and encrypt files and code, but not in a way that stops someone from viewing the source and modifying/sharing it.* It again clarifies the core of GPL–making software “free as in speech” and not making everything “free as in beer.” [...] [...] Luis Villa provides some links to this release, and the Center for the Study of Digital Property goes in-depth and explains the changes. The main substantive change seems to be in preventing DRM from restricting the sharing or modification of GPL software. In other words you can protect and encrypt files and code, but not in a way that stops someone from viewing the source and modifying/sharing it.* It again clarifies the core of GPL–making software “free as in speech” and not making everything “free as in beer.” [...]

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