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Globalization for GPL 3

What will the new Global GPL look like? I'm curious -- I hope that it does not become unintelligble in its attempts to be all things to all nations. Licenses accomplish specific purposes. One should select the license to meet a purpose. How many masters can one serve at a time?

FSF General Counsel Eben Moglen: "We need to globalize GPL," Moglen told IDG. "GPL 2 has elegantly worked outside of the U.S. in Europe and elsewhere, but it needs to become a bit more legally cosmopolitan. The GPL depended heavily on the Berne Convention, but it's still speaking language very reminiscent of U.S. copyright law. The GPL needs to recognize global copyright more explicitly. It sounds strange to lawyers in some countries."

posted by Dana Bostrom @ 16:22