“The year 2007 has been the most active year for legal
developments in the history of free and open source (‘FOSS’). In
fact, you would have been hard pressed in past years to enumerate
even five important legal developments. However 2007 permits the
creation of a traditional ‘top ten’ list. My list of the top ten
FOSS legal developments in 2007 follows:“1. Publication of GPLv3. The GPLv2 continues to be the most
widely used FOSS license, yet the law relating to software has
developed significantly since the publication of the original
publication of the GPLv2 in 1991…”
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