Stallman on draft 2 of GPLv3

At the recent 4th GPLv3 international conference in Bangalore, India, Richard Stallman spoke on the changes being made to the GNU GPL to protect computer users rights against certain uses of DRM and patents, and how the licence is being improved with regards to compatibility with certain other free software licences, enforceability, and internationalisation.

FSFE have published a transcript was made of Stallman's talk. Below are the section titles.

1. The presentation
2. Internationalisation
3. Patents - a promise not to sue
4. Patent retaliation



5. Tivoisation and DRM
6. Licence compatibility
7. Audience question on the goals of the gpl
8. Back to compatibility
9. BitTorrent
10. Distribution by Internet
11. Termination

• Q1: Using the gpl for non software works
• Q2: Why not a broader patent retaliation
• Q3: Linux, Linus
• Q4: Did Linux help GNU
• Eben Moglen explains the DRM changes
• Q5: Freedom and thin clients
• Note: About "intellectual property"
• Q6: Affero and web services

• Further information

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