Upcoming GPL to punish software patenting?
6th Sep 2005, 22:33 GMT
In this article, European FSF President Georg Greve hints that the next version of the GNU General Public License will contain clauses that explicitly withdraw all rights to use the software for users (or rather, corporations) that enforce software patents or digital rights management (DRM). In essence, this would mean that companies such as...
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