This week at LWN: GPLv3 beta 2 and LGPLv3 beta 1

Posted by grouch on Aug 4, 2006 10:51 PM EDT
LWN.net; By Jonathan Corbet
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The Free Software Foundation has released a second draft of version 3 of the GPL. This draft incorporates comments made in the first draft, filtered, of course, by the FSF's goals. The resulting changes tweak some terms, clarify others, and generally increase the international applicability of the license. The fundamental nature of the license and its goals has not changed, however, and quite a few people who disliked the first draft will have reason to be displeased with this version as well.

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