GPL 3: Making Room on Patents, DRM

Hmm, could it be that the GPL3 is simply a reality? Or perhaps instead, trying to find a way to make DRM and patents work in their world?

The second draft release of the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 3 is out, including a softening on its terms about DRM (Digital Rights Management) and patents.

Let the comments and controversy resume over the proposed changes to widely-used open source license.

The latest draft release softened its stance from the prior by noting that its own DRM provision under the open source license is meant to prevent DRM users from disallowing people from modifying or sharing GPL version 3 licensed software.

“The clarified DRM section preserves the spirit of the original GPL, which forbids adding additional unfree restrictions to free software,” The Free Software Foundation (FSF) said in a statement about the latest release…. Source: InternetNews