GPLv3 discussion committees: "Draft 2 includes our input"
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Sonntag, 06.August 2006
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A Newsforge journalist contacted the GPLv3 discussion committees to
ask if they are being listened to by FSF, and if the 2nd draft of
GPLv3 includes they're input. All who responded said yes to both.
Here's the story: Torvalds'
comments on GPLv3 committees refuted. The reason for that title
is that Linus Torvalds said last week that he heard that FSF had
ignored the discussion committees. I'm glad to hear his information
was wrong.
That article doesn't explain the role of the discussion committees,
so I'll just sketch it out quickly here.
The discussion committees are made up of people who have some
interest in making the GNU GPL as good as possible. This includes
many who are not supporters of the free software movement's goals.
There are four committees, grouped by topic, with a total of
something like 130 members:
Each comment that the public submits through gplv3.fsf.org goes to these
committees where they group the comments into issues, and collect
all the views on these issues and suggestions for how to address
them.
For more information on the process, see FSFE's GPLv3 project
page.
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