The next GPL: Why it's being shaped on GitHub (InfoWorld)

Simon Phipps writes on Richard Fontana's GPLv3 fork being developed on Github. "To date, Fontana's changes mostly relate to the concerns of the corporate voices in the GPLv3 process. The preamble -- 'an inspiring and important political statement,' according to Fontana -- has been removed, as has the 'How to Apply' appendix. Those simple steps alone dramatically shorten the text. The rest of the changes seem to fix apparently redundant compromises that made their way into the text as part of the negotiation process among all the corporate participants."

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