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partment C: Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs



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Policy Department C: Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs 
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3.2 Public 
events 
For those who could not or did not wish to participate in the license revision process online, 
a series of conferences and community events were organized where individuals could 
discuss their concerns and ideas directly with representatives from the FSF and SFLC. In 
total 18 events were held in a dozen countries. These events included five conferences 
organized specifically for the discussion of the GPL revision: 

 
January 16th, 2006. Boston 

 
April 21st, 2006. Porto Alegre 

 
June 22nd and 23rd, 2006. Barcelona 

 
August 23rd, 2006. Bangalore 

 
November 21st and 22nd, 2006. Tokyo 
To expand the discussion further, community organizations and conference organizers were 
encouraged to put together sessions at related conferences: 

 
February 10th, 2006. Bologna, Italy: Incontro al Master in Tecnologie del Software 
Libero 

 
March 18th, 2006. Torino, Italy: GPLv3 presented by Richard Stallman 

 
May 12th, 2006. Milano, Italy: Giornata di studio sul TCPA 

 
May 29th, 2006. Manchester, UK 

 
August 29nd, 2006. Dataföreningen Region West, Sweden 

 
August 30th, 2006. Copenhagen, Denmark: “Do you know enough about GPLv3?” 

 
September 6th, 2006. Oruro, Bolivia: VI Congress on Free software 

 
September 9th, 2006. Pisa, Italy: Lesson at Master for management of Free 
Software 

 
September 15th, 2006. Berlin, Germany: GPLv3 workshop at WOS4 

 
September 26th, 2006. Dublin, Ireland: GPL: What can v3 improve? 

 
October 13-15, 2006. Mendoza. Argentina 

 
November 4th, 2006. Dublin, Ireland: GPLv3, DRM, and the Linux kernel 

 
April 1, 2007. Brussels, Belgium: GPLv3 - Improving a Great Licence 
Further details and event records for all these GPLv3 related meetings are available from 
http://gplv3.fsf.org/wiki/index.php/Event_Planning
 
3.3 Discussion 
Committees 
In addition to these methods of encouraging individual participation, four discussion 
committees were formed to give representatives of the different groups with a stake in the 
license a forum for expressing the concerns of their communities and coordinating with 
each other. Members of these committees were asked to both represent their particular 
communities and actively seek out and engage other members of those communities so 
that everyone with a concern about the license would have a voice. 
The committees were loosely organized into individual users and developers (Committee 
D)
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, commercial distributors and users (Committee B)
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, non-profit distributors and public 
or private institutional users (Committee C)
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, and representatives of international 
communities and large free software projects using non-GPL licenses (Committee A)
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. In 
                                                                                                                                                            
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 http://gplv3.fsf.org/comments/gplv3-draft-4
 
21 Committee D materials - 
http://gplv3.fsf.org/discussion-committees/D/members
 
22 Committee B materials - 
http://gplv3.fsf.org/discussion-committees/B/memberlis

23 Committee C materials - 
http://gplv3.fsf.org/discussion-committees/C/memberlist-public
 
24 Committee A materials - 
http://gplv3.fsf.org/discussion-committees/A/committee-A-bios
 


Workshop: Legal aspects of free and open source software 
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total 87 representatives from these different communities were invited to form the 
committees with each committee also given the ability to add what other members they 
saw fit. 
Each committee had a representative from the Free Software Foundation participate during 
meetings in order to help ensure that the discussions there were taken into consideration in 
preparing the next draft of the GPL. Each committee was given control of how and when 
they would meet and how much of their discussions they would make public. While 
Committee D choose to meet in public Internet Relay Chat (IRC) rooms and on a publicly 
archived mailing list, Committee B met mostly in person or on the phone and opted to keep 
their discussions confidential until six months after the license’s release. Committees A and 
C opted for less formal rules. Many of these discussion materials are still available today, 
including the full minutes from Committee B
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 and both the IRC
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 and mail
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 records from 
Committee D. 
In total these committees met for 80 or more hours during the course of the revision 
process. 
 
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THE DRAFTS 
In total, four discussion drafts were promulgated by the FSF, though the initial process 
document had only anticipated three. The need for an additional draft was recognized when 
Microsoft and Novell announced their joint patent agreement on November 2, 2006
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 which 
contained discriminatory promises of patent safety
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.  
Each discussion draft was accompanied by a rationale document. These documents 
contained the details of changes made since the previous version along with detailed 
reasons for each modification. The first rationale presented the FSF’s goals in beginning the 
GPL revision process and an introduction to the modifications made since the GPLv2. Each 
subsequent rationale took the form of a strike-through version of the license highlighting 
the changes made between draft versions and footnotes explaining the reasons for each 
modification. 

 
1st discussion draft: 
http://gplv3.fsf.org/gpl-draft-2006-01-16.html
 

 
side by side comparison between GPLv2 and GPLv3-draft1: 
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20060118155841115
 

 
rationale: 
http://gplv3.fsf.org/gpl-rationale-2006-01-16.html
 

 
Transcript of presentations at GPLv3 launch conference on January 16th, 2006: 
http://www.ifso.ie/documents/gplv3-launch-2006-01-16.html
 

 
2nd draft: 
http://gplv3.fsf.org/gpl-draft-2006-07-27.html
 

 
rationale (pdf): 
http://gplv3.fsf.org/gpl3-dd1to2-markup-rationale.pdf
 

 
3rd draft: 
http://gplv3.fsf.org/gpl-draft-2007-03-28.html
 

 
rationale (pdf): 
http://gplv3.fsf.org/gpl3-dd3-rationale.pdf
 

 
FAQ: 
http://gplv3.fsf.org/dd3-faq
 

 
4th draft (final call): 
http://gplv3.fsf.org/gpl-draft-2007-05-31.html
 

 
rationale (pdf): 
http://gplv3.fsf.org/gpl3-dd4-rationale.pdf
 

 
Final GPL text: 
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
 
                                                 
25 Committee B meeting minutes - 
http://gplv3.fsf.org/discussion-committees/B/Minutes/
 
26 Committee D IRC meeting minutes - 
http://gplv3.fsf.org/discussion-committees/D
 
27 Committee D mailing list archive - 
http://gplv3.fsf.org/pipermail/committee-d/
 
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 https://www.fsf.org/licensing/2007-03-28-gplv3-grandfather
 
29
 https://www.fsf.org/news/microsoft_response
 


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