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Linus: read-up on your GPL 3.0

OK, I must have missed something here. He misread the GPL v3? Hmm, whatever. Speaking for myself, DRM is too restrictive and frankly annoying.

Linus may have it wrong on digital rights management (DRM), but it’s the vague wording and confusing concepts - like what is meant by a “derivative work” - that is causing the real headaches over the next General Public License (GPL).

A representative of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), leading the effort around GPL 3.0, said that Linux creator Linus Torvalds had “misread” the license’s provisional terms. [Read the rest]

[tags]linux,gpl,free software foundation,linus torvalds[/tags]

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