GNU General Public License v3: A Legal Analysis

This paper offers a first-look legal analysis of the draft version 3 of the GNU General Public License, and will also look at the debate that it has generated in the Free and Open Source community. The paper will answer the following vital questions: Is the GPL v3 different in any fundamental way fr...

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Main Author: Andrés Guadamuz González
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2006-06-01
Series:SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology & Society
Online Access:http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/script-ed/vol3-2/guadamuz.asp
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spelling doaj-e93498f883274aa5bc3bcc481087c9f62020-11-25T01:03:05ZengUniversity of EdinburghSCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology & Society1744-25672006-06-0132154163GNU General Public License v3: A Legal AnalysisAndrés Guadamuz GonzálezThis paper offers a first-look legal analysis of the draft version 3 of the GNU General Public License, and will also look at the debate that it has generated in the Free and Open Source community. The paper will answer the following vital questions: Is the GPL v3 different in any fundamental way from GPL v2? What are the main differences? What will be the impact of the new GPL to the problem of software patents? Is there an incompatibility problem with previous versions of the licence? How does it compare with other existing licences?http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/script-ed/vol3-2/guadamuz.asp
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description This paper offers a first-look legal analysis of the draft version 3 of the GNU General Public License, and will also look at the debate that it has generated in the Free and Open Source community. The paper will answer the following vital questions: Is the GPL v3 different in any fundamental way from GPL v2? What are the main differences? What will be the impact of the new GPL to the problem of software patents? Is there an incompatibility problem with previous versions of the licence? How does it compare with other existing licences?
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