Final call GPLv3 draft released

The final draft of version 3 of the GNU General Public License is now available. The changes from the previous draft are relatively small. GPLv3 will be compatible with version 2 of the Apache License thanks to a few tweaks and a more nuanced interpretation of the Apache License text. The term "user product" has been more precisely defined in a way which avoids references to U.S. law; it has been made clear that "user product" is a very broad category. And there is a term that you can have a contractor work on private changes to GPLv3-licensed software without being considered to have distributed that software. The "grandfather clause" which excludes the Microsoft/Novell deal from some of the new patent language is still present. See the rationale document [PDF] for more information on these changes. If something seems wrong, now is the last chance to file comments with the FSF.

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