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CNET News: GPL 3 Release Could Slip Past March

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Stephen Shankland
Feb 13, 2007

“The Free Software Foundation is no longer committing to the
planned March deadline for a new version of the General Public
License, but a third draft of the seminal open-source license is
due soon.

“When the foundation began its GPL revamp, it planned to release
a final “last call” draft by January 15 and the GPL 3 itself “no
later than March 2007.” Now, however, Executive Director Peter
Brown isn’t willing to pin down a firm schedule…”


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