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Linux.com: Report on the Fourth International GPLv3 Conference

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Mayank Sharma
Sep 5, 2006

“Last month the Free Software Foundation (FSF) held its Fourth
International Conference on GPLv3 at the Indian Institute of
Management in Bangalore. Around 150 participants from all over
India and abroad, including Japan, France, and Germany, attended.
Since this was the first conference after the second draft of
GPLv3, which saw several extensive revisions, both Richard Stallman
and Eben Moglen painstakingly explained the new draft, and took
many questions from attendees.

“Dr. Nagarjuna G., chairman of FSF India, introduced Stallman,
the founder of the FSF and the GNU Project. Stallman spent around
20 minutes educating the audience about the four freedoms and how
the GNU GPL exists to provide and protect those freedoms…”

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