Opinión de los hackers del kernel Linux sobre la GPLv3

[Running Bear]

29 hackers se han juntado para producir un manifiesto (http://lwn.net/images/pdf/kernel_gplv3_position.pdf) en el que explican por qué los borradores presentados de la GPLv3 no son adecuados desde su punto de vista, y avisan de que la GPLv3 podría producir una balcanización (o desmembración, su sinónimo de moda por estas tierras) del mundo del software libre por problemas de incompatibilidad entre licencias

http://lwn.net/Articles/200422/

Meneame.net

[woodstock]

Tendría que ver a Stallman fundamentando la GPLv3...para equiparar un poco

[ashtophet]

No equipararía... pués los argumentos son más bien escuetos... Yo tiendo a ponerme más del lado de RMS... de todos modos, la GPLv3 está en fase de debate y todas las opiniones sobre modificaciones tienen cabida...

[ashtophet]

Respuesta de la FSF



The Free Software Foundation wishes to clarify a few factual points
about the Second Discussion Draft of GNU GPL version 3, on which
recent discussion has presented inaccurate information.

1. The FSF has no power to force anyone to switch from GPLv2 to GPLv3
on their own code. We intentionally wrote GPLv2 (and GPLv1) so we
would not have this power. Software developers will continue to
have the right to use GPLv2 for their code after GPLv3 is
published, and we will respect their decisions.

2. In order to honor freedom 0, your freedom to run the program as
you wish, a free software license may not contain "use
restrictions" that would restrict what you can do with it.

Contrary to what some have said, the GPLv3 draft has no use
restrictions, and the final version won't either.

GPLv3 will prohibit certain distribution practices which restrict
users' freedom to modify the code. We hope this policy will
thwart the ways some companies wish to "use" free software --
namely, distributing it to you while controlling what you can do
with it. This policy is not a "use restriction": it doesn't
restrict how they, or you, can run the program; it doesn't
restrict what they, or you, can make the program do. Rather it
ensures you, as a user, are as free as they are.

3. Where GPLv2 relies on an implicit patent license, which depends on
US law, GPLv3 contains an explicit patent license that does the
same job internationally.
Contrary to what some have said, GPLv3 will not cause a company to
"lose its entire [software] patent portfolio". It simply says
that if someone has a patent covering XYZ, and distributes a
GPL-covered program to do XYZ, he can't sue the program's
subsequent users, redistributors and improvers for doing XYZ with
their own versions of that program. This has no effect on other
patents which that program does not implement.

Software patents attack the freedom of all software developers and
users; their only legitimate use is to deter aggression using
software patents. Therefore, if we could abolish every entity's
entire portfolio of software patents tomorrow, we would jump at
the chance. But it isn't possible for a software license such as
the GNU GPL to achieve such a result.

We do, however, hope that GPL v3 can solve a part of the patent
problem. The FSF is now negotiating with organizations holding
substantial patent inventories, trying to mediate between their
conflicting "extreme" positions. We hope to work out the precise
details of the explicit patent license so as to free software
developers from patent aggression under a substantial fraction of
software patents. To fully protect software developers and users
from software patents will, however, require changes in patent law.



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redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development
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[ashtophet]

Interesante discusión en slashdot:

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/06/0110254

Después de leer argumentos, borrador actual de la GPLv3... desde mi punto de vista es una evolución necesaria y será la mejor licencia libre para software.

[ashtophet]

Con el draft #3, parece que la licencia se ha mejorado, incluso en la opinión de Linus Benedict Torvalds:



"In this new form I think the GPLv3 is at least a viable alternative to the GPLv2. I'll have to read it through a few more times and let things sink in,
but my gut feeling from reading it through once is that I at least no longer have a feeling of 'I'd never have selected this license if I were to have
started a new project.'"


via | linux.com

[ashtophet]

El día 29 oficialmente comienza a estar vigente la GPLv3:



On Friday, June 29, at 12 noon (EDT), the Free Software Foundation will
officially release the GNU GPL version 3. Please join us in celebration
as we bring to a close eighteen months of public outreach and comment,
in revision of the world's most popular free software license.

Beyond the creation of an improved license, the process of drafting
version 3 has helped highlight vital issues for the community of free
software users. This is a moment to thank the thousands who participated
by commenting on the license, and those that represented stakeholders
through the GPLv3 committee process.

Now with the release of GPLv3, we will see new defenses extended to free
software. These defenses will continue the long history of fighting all
efforts to make free software proprietary.

Please join us as we stream live footage of Richard Stallman announcing
GPLv3 from Noon (EDT) at www.fsf.org.

If you are in the Boston area you can also join us at the FSF offices
from 11:30am. Please let us know at <info@fsf.org> if you would like to
attend.

[woodstock]

A ver quienes cambian y quienes no.