Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- InformationWeek: "The Controversy Over GPL 3"

[Alexander Terekhov]

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198001444

<quote>

The next version of the open source license is dividing the community,
and it isn't even out yet 

[...]

Bare facts: What's the difference betweekn free and open? Ask Richard
Stallman, who wrote the first GPL.

[...]

Eben Moglen, who is helping craft GPLv3, wrote a treatise on
intellectual property in 2003 called "The dotCommunist Manifest"

[...]

Having deliberately missed the March deadline, there's no firm date yet
for the completed version of GPLv3. But most users aren't in a hurry.
Rather than squabble over GPLv3 later, the Christian Science Monitor's
Barbounist says, "it's in the best interest of the community to work
these issues out now."

</quote>

And in the meantime... Eben The Grandiose' planned speech for his OSBC 
keynote this May 22, 2007:

<quote>

Copyleft Business Models: Why It's Good Not To Be Your Competitor's Free
Lunch

Abstract: Now that the GPL wars are over, and we have two good GPLs to
choose from, it is time to re-ask some fundamental questions about
business models and software licenses. In this talk, I explain why
smaller software-focused businesses will soon be deserting Apache- and
BSD-style permissive licenses for GPL[2 3] and their successors.

</quote>

LOL.

regards,
alexander.

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