FSF to launch GPLv3 at high noon
Saturday, June 30th, 2007By Matthew Aslett
The Free Software Foundation will today launch version 3 of its GNU General Public License, 19 months after it began the process to rewrite the license used by an estimated three-quarters of all free and open source software.
The official launch will take place at noon Eastern Time in the FSF’s Boston office, finally delivering the first update to the GPL since 1991. The license has been updated via public draft process that began in December 2005 and has sparked no little controversy.
Although many of the FSF’s GNU free software projects are expected to immediately be licensed under GPLv3, it could be some time before the larger FOSS success stories make it to the new license, if ever.