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Novell-Microsoft agreement delays GPLv3

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The November 2006 agreement between Microsoft and Novell is delaying the release of the final draft of the third version of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3), says Peter Brown, the executive director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).

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dinotrac ·
>We are researching issues related to potential unintended consequences of the language we plan to adopt

Glad they're concerned about that. GPLV2 is a very good license. GPLV2 can be a better one. It would be a shame to do otherwise.

The only concern...the nature of unintended consequences is that they are more accurately called unforeseen consequences.

After all these years of GPLV2, the Novell dear apparently surprised the FSF. Imagine what may lay in wait for a brand new license...

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