“After a long discussion the new GNU General Public License was
released. It would be safe to say that version 3 has met far more
discussion than version 2. The Jem Report even claims that GPL 3
could be the end of GNU.“I’ve no doubt that this is the beginning of the end for GNU,
and it will prove the strength of the larger free software world.
The Free Software Foundation has dumped a load of restrictions on
us with GPLv3 and told us that restrictions lead to freedom and
that it is good for us…”
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