“Eben Moglen admits he is a ‘talker’ and his performance during
our brief 30-minute chat does nothing to persuade otherwise. The
former general counsel to the Free Software Foundation was at the
Red Hat Summit in San Diego on Thursday to put his considerable
oratorical skills to use, updating attendees around the
soon-to-be-launched third installment of the GNU General Public
License–a set of rules and restrictions that underpins the use of
a lot of open-source software.“However, following reports that he has effectively stepped down
from the Free Software Foundation (FSF), it seemed strange that
Moglen was at the summit speaking about the GNU General Public
License (GPL). But Moglen claims that reports that he is stepping
away from the FSF have been exaggerated. He is merely putting a
little distance between himself and the organisation….”