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Gothi[c]:
Ever wonder what's different about the brand new GPL version 3 versus it's older kin, GPLv2?

Richard Stallman, the guy who came up with the GPL in the first place, explains in non-legalese
so we can all understand once and for all what it's all about:





http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1230218647830638736

mouser:
very nice find.. it's almost a year old so it might be nice to have a more recent video explanation from an objective person, but regardless it's an interesting video to watch!

mouser:
It's actually fascinating to hear about how v3 features were designed to thwart companies who found loopholes in v2.

Gothi[c]:
It's actually fascinating to hear about how v3 features were designed to thwart companies who found loopholes in v2.

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Exactly.

Gothi[c]:
...explanation from an objective person

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There is such a thing as an objective person on software licenses?  :D
That would be like finding a programmer who is objective on programming language ;) It simply does not exist.
Maybe in some ways, software licenses are worse since a lot of ideology and complete ways of thought are represented by them.

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