GPLv3, one year later

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Fri, 06/27/2008 - 23:26

After 18 months of widespread consultation with community and corporate interests, the third versions of the GNU General Public License (GPL) and GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) were released one year ago on 29 June 2007.

In November, they were joined by the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL). Looking back at these licenses [...]


 

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