GPL upgrade set for Friday
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| "GPL version 3 does clean up a lot of things about the GPL that were sort
| of implicit in previous and become much more explicit here," such as how
| the GPL interacts with other licenses, Spencer said.
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| Sun has expressed the possibility of offering its Solaris OS under the GPL
| 3. The Linux kernel has been offered under the GPL previously.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070627/tc_infoworld/89681
[Richard Stallman:] Your Freedom needs Free/Libre Software
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| Many of us know that governments can threaten the human rights of
| software users through censorship and surveillance of the Internet.
| Many do not realize that the software they run on their home or work
| computers can be an even worse threat. Thinking of software as "just
| a tool", they suppose that it obeys them, when in fact it often obeys
| others instead.
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| The software running in most computers is non-free, proprietary
| software: controlled by software companies, not by its users. Users
| can't check what these programs do, nor prevent them from doing what
| they don't want. Most people accept this because they have seen no
| other way, but it is simply wrong to give developers power over the
| users' computer.
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| This unjust power, as usual, tempts its wielders to further misdeeds.
| If a computer talks to a network, and you don't control the software
| in it, it can easily spy on you. Microsoft Windows spies on users;
| for instance, it reports what words a user searches for in her own
| files, and what other programs are installed.
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http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=43&ItemID=13157
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