Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, proposed changes to General Public Licence at a public forum on Tuesday but made clear that provisions to protect users from patent litigations will remain intact.
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New licensing terms for Linux and other open-source products take a "highly aggressive" stance against the digital rights management software that's widely favoured in the entertainment industry, said Eben Moglen, general counsel for the Free Software Foundation.
The Free Software Foundation is set to release the General Public License version 3 at noon on Friday (in the US).
Open-source programmers might not like the idea of software patents, but those critics would be better off adapting to the fact that they're not going away, Hewlett-Packard's top Linux executive said Tuesday.
Richard Stallman says even if Sun and others follow IBM's lead and started defusing the patent minefield of software development, the battle against software patents must continue.
Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman says Microsoft's chairman is blurring the issue of software patents.
General Public License governing heart of popular open-source OS is being updated to deal with patents, other issues. But it'll be a struggle.
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