Second draft of controversial GPL 3 due Tuesday
The Free Software Foundation Inc. (FSF) is due to release the second draft of the GNU general public license version 3 (GPLv3) Tuesday, according to sources close to the organization.
The FSF released the first draft of GPLv3 in January and two areas of the proposed license in relation to software patent licensing and digital rights management (DRM) generated plenty of debate.
One of the draft's provisions requires large software distributors who own patents and cross license patents with their peers to "shield downstream users" of their applications against any potential patent infringement claims. The other provision prevents GPL-licensed software from being used in DRM copy-protection software.
The DRM provision immediately drew the ire of Linux kernel developer Linus Torvalds who said he didn't expect the Linux kernel would adopt GPLv3.
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