Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:38:35 -0500 From: Richard M Stallman <rms@gnu.org> To: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> Cc: miod@online.fr, ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com, misc@openbsd.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, licensing@fsf.org, fedora-list@redhat.com, announce@fsfeurope.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, mharrow@linuxmail.org, claire.newman@canonical.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPL version 4 Message-ID: <E1LCDed-0001OK-UC@fencepost.gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <494576C8.3020501@paradise.net.nz> (message from Mark Kirkwood on Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:12:40 %2B1300) References: <494576C8.3020501@paradise.net.nz>
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I don't think it is that bad - the intent is for the software to be
freely available for *people* to use. It is actually about our freedom.
You have it right. Copyleft licenses defend freedom for all users by
stopping middlemen from stripping it away.
We have no plans for a version 4 of the GNU GPL.
It might happen some day, but we are not working on it.
As of now, we do not need to change GPL version 3.
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