GPL Version 3: Background To Adoption, by Stallman and Moglen

Posted by dave on Jun 10, 2005 8:38 AM EDT
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The GNU General Public License ("the GPL") has remained unmodified, at version level 2, since 1991. This is extraordinary longevity for any widely-employed legal instrument. The durability of the GPL is even more surprising when one takes into account the differences between the free software movement at the time of version 2's release and the situation prevailing in 2005.

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