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● 11.19.07

●● Quick Mention: GNU Affero GPLv3 Released

Posted in FSF, GPL, Law at 8:07 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

You may wish to know the the last variant of the GPLv3 has just been released.

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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today published the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (GNU AGPLv3). This is a new license; it is based on version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPLv3), but has an additional term to allow users who interact with the licensed software over a network to receive the source for that program. By publishing this license, the FSF aims to foster user and development communities around network-oriented free software.

This comes just days after Sun Microsystems showed its first signs of GPLv3 apporval and acceptance. █

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