GPLv3 Released

Important cross-roads day in the world of free and open-source software - the predominant licence is up-issued to a new version - GPLv3 is released.

Will existing projects migrate? Importantly what will the Linux kernel guys do? What about other important projects like Samba? Will it become the licence of choice for new projects? Is this the deal-breaker for the future of the Microsoft-Novell deal (and all others like it)? What will be the response of distributions - Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, SuSE, etc? Will this see TiVo-like devices move away from using Linux and start using a BSD instead? Will this alienate the FSF from "mainstream" open-source, or will this unify free and open-source developers together? Will it be a non-issue altogether?

It will be very interesting, won't it? :-)

Update: Luis Villa provides good commentary about the licence itself, info for developers and for companies and finishes with some good closing thoughts.

| 30 Jun 2007 | #