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Posted by Zonk on Thursday July 27, 2006 @05:34PM from the revisions-are-fun dept.

thppft! writes "The second discussion draft of the GNU General Public License version 3 was released, along with the first discussion draft of the GNU Lesser General Public License. Along with the text for the licenses , the GPLv3 website also includes an introduction by Eben Moglen along with markup changes to the rationale and the GPL itself."

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v3, eh? (Score:2, Funny)

by mobby_6kl ( 668092 ) writes: on Thursday July 27, 2006 @05:48PM (#15794951)

What, did they fix all the bugs in the previous version already?

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Re:v3, eh? (Score:2, Funny)

by P0ldy ( 848358 ) writes: on Thursday July 27, 2006 @05:53PM (#15794982)

No, but they're expecting to take care of that with a service pack to v3.

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Re:Dear Slashdot (Score:4, Funny)

by ameoba ( 173803 ) writes: on Thursday July 27, 2006 @06:32PM (#15795210)

You must be new here - nobody ever actually reads the articles.

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Re:more than diff (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday July 27, 2006 @07:39PM (#15795573)

Do you have a doc file of it?

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Treacherous (Score:5, Funny)

by wiredlogic ( 135348 ) writes: on Thursday July 27, 2006 @08:59PM (#15795888)

*2 DRM becomes nastier when based on Treacherous Computing and other changes
in computer hardware which deny users the possibility of running modified or alternate
programs.

It looks like they had RMS personally writing the footnotes for this one.

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