GPL v3 project underway
The Free Software Foundation has begun its GPL v3 revision, which includes a "development and publicity project".
"The project will bring together thousands of organisations, software developers, and software users from around the globe during 2006, in an effort to update the world's most popular Free Software licence. The GPLv3 promises to be one of the largest participatory comments and adoption efforts ever undertaken."
According to Peter Brown, Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation, "With the release of GPLv3, we aim to increase the international reach of the Free Software movement."
To say this is an ambitious project is an understatement, especially because all of the comments from various jurisdictions will need to be synthesized into one license, in accordance with overarching principles of the GPL manifesto.
See prior post on the various purposes that the GPL document is serving: worldwide license, code of conduct, constitution and Stallman literary expression.
Predictions: fascinating result; no improved clarity; full employment for lawyers helping clients deal with the license.
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