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ARTICLE · 27 JULY 2007

GNU GPL V3 And GNU LGPL V3 Released

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The Free Software Foundation released the last call drafts of Version 3 of the GNU General Public License and Version 3 of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

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On June 29, 2007, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) released the last call drafts of Version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3) and Version 3 of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPLv3). The Free Software Foundation and other developers license free software, including the GNU operating system and its widely used GNU/Linux variant, under one or more versions of the GNU GPL or GNU LGPL, one of the most popular reciprocal open source licensing regimes. The revised licences attempt to address the following concerns not addressed by prior versions:

  1. to restrict the growing practise of distributing GPL licensed programs in devices which use technical protections against installing and running modified versions;

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