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PC World: Next Version of GPL Coming in 2007

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“The next version of the GPL (General Public License), GPL 3, is
likely to appear in early 2007, according to a board member of the
Free Software Foundation (FSF) who is working on drafting the
future release.

“The GPL is the most popular license for free software and was
created by Richard Stallman in 1989 for the GNU free software
operating system project. Version 2 of the GPL appeared in
1991…”

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