Stallman Sets Out GPL Changes
Richard Stallman, author of the GNU General Public License -- the most widely used open source licence -- has said that the upcoming GPL version 3 would not be "huge."
Speaking at FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting) held in Brussels last Saturday, Stallman outlined the ways the revised GPL will attempt to combat threats to free (as in "freedom") software that have emerged over the last 10 years.
Stallman said: "There is no big change in GNU GPL version 3. There can't be and must never be. The basic idea will always be the same." Nevertheless, those changes have proven controversial so far, not least amongst developers currently using the GPL v2, such as Linus Torvalds. Stallman said the new licence will be completed in October or early in 2007.
Two of the most important changes are designed to head off problems posed by copy-restriction systems (DRM, or digital rights management) and software patents, Stallman said. He said systems such as Advanced Access Content System (AACS), the DRM standard adopted for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD discs, will cause problems for users because of the restrictions they impose, such as disallowing analogue outputs.
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