Richardfontana/GPL.next - Fork of GPL

https://github.com/richardfontana/GPL.next

by iProject • 14 years ago

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ibotty5• 14 years ago

i wonder why this happens only now. richard fontana has been pretty open in his criticism for a while...

davidddavidson• 14 years ago

Because it was forked and rewritten BY Richard Fontana

ibotty5• 14 years ago

huh. i know. but why now?

rwmj• 14 years ago

Richard gave a talk which touched upon this at FOSDEM earlier this year:

https://archive.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/event/the_decline_o...

(Sadly I cannot find the slides online)

StavrosK• 14 years ago

It doesn't say what it does anywhere that I can see. The readme concerns itself with how it's allowed and compatible with the GPL, but I can't know what it's for unless I read the entire license.

ibotty5• 14 years ago

one important thing is clarification and removing leftovers from negotiations between multiple parties involved in the gpl3 license text.

morsch2• 14 years ago

Wow, I think it's pretty outrageous to call a license that is not backed by the FSF GPL.next. His argument that GPL is a generic term doesn't convince me at all.

sneak• 14 years ago

https://github.com/richardfontana/GPL.next/issues/13

morsch2• 14 years ago

The GitHub page linked is 404 now, I think he renamed the license to avoid any misunderstandings: https://github.com/richardfontana/Copyleft.next

PopaL• 14 years ago

What is the main difference between this and the original GPL ?

I'm not a lawyer so I ask here, why I would use GPL.next instead of GPL ?

dfc• 14 years ago

Is anyone involved a lawyer? After reading the discussion that went into the removal of the acceptance clause I became a little worried.

ibotty5• 14 years ago

yes. many persons involved are. (richard fontana is redhat's top lawyer.)

gioele• 14 years ago

Discussion thread on LWN (with the author, Richard Fontana): https://lwn.net/Articles/505589/

trotsky• 14 years ago

For those looking for some context, I found some slides:

"The Decline of the GPL, and What To Do About It"

Richard Fontana, Red Hat - Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit 2012

https://events.linuxfoundation.org/images/stories/pdf/lfcs20...

hobin2• 14 years ago

Totally serious question: isn't the GPL GPL'ed in some way?

ibotty5• 14 years ago

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL

hobin2• 14 years ago

Ah, I see. Thank you. :)

Richardfontana/GPL.next - Fork of GPL

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