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ZDNet: Defender of the GPL

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Stephen Shankland
Jan 21, 2006

“Eben Moglen’s life just got a lot busier.

“The Columbia Law School professor and attorney representing the
Free Software Foundation has the new role of explaining and
overseeing the update to the General Public License (GPL). That
document, being revised for the first time in 15 years, is not only
the embodiment of the free software movement’s principles but also
the legal foundation for thousands of open-source software programs
from Linux to MySQL…”

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