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Sunday, July 01, 2007

FSF releases the GNU General Public License, Version 3

The

Free Software Foundation (FSF) has released the final text of

Version 3 of the GNU General Public License.

"[...] States should not allow patents to restrict development and use of software on general-purpose computers, but in those that do, we wish to avoid the special danger that patents applied to a free program could make it effectively proprietary. To prevent this, the GPL assures that patents cannot be used to render the program non-free. [...]"

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