FSF again announces draft GPL 3

According to the Free Software Foundation, some topics must be fully discussed prior to a public version of the program, including the authorization protocols between Novell and Microsoft.

The third version of GPL (general public authorization letter), which is expected to be published a few months ago, will be announced by the FSF; Free Software Foundation, the draft will take into account the cooperation case between Microsoft and Novell last year.

Brett Smith, an engineer authorized by the Free Software Foundation, told the media, "We didn't expect that it would take so much time, but before a public version of the program, we thought that some topics had to be fully discussed, the authorization protocols include Novell and Microsoft. 」

Brett Smith pointed out that the new draft reversion will reflect the results of these discussions and will publish a document on the basic arguments to illustrate how the foundation achieved the results of these discussions.

The GNU open operating system program was created in 1989 by Richard Stallman, the father of Free Software, who is now the executive director of the Free Software Foundation. The last complete version of GPL was 16 years ago. Currently, all software with free or open source codes, including the Linux operating system, are authorized to study, copy, modify, and re-spread freely by following the content of this authorization book.

Previously, Stallman publicly stated how Microsoft would cooperate with Novell. In last November, Microsoft announced cooperation with Novell, which owns SuSE Linux, to support each other and provide various technical and software support for Novell customers through Microsoft's patented technology. The Free Software Foundation said that the company was attempting to charge Novell users against the basic rights of users to use the software.

As early as June 2006, the Free Software Foundation published the second draft of gplv3. However, Stallman still hopes to announce the third draft again in last middle October, but it has been down until now. This also means that the last public version of gplv3 will be postponed for a few months, and it is unlikely that it will be completed by this summer.