Unlocking IP (ARC 'Linkage' Research Project)
Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre
and
Linux Australia present:
Resources for a Symposium:
“General Public License version 3 (GPL v3) and Australia”
Thursday 30 November 2006 1pm for 1.30pm - 5pm
UNSW Faculty of Law, Room G02
This page contains materials relevant to the symposium above.
Resources
Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre and presenters
- Issues Paper for the symposium, Abi Paramaguru and David Vaile [RTF] [ODT] [HTML] [PDF]
- Andrew Tridgell's presentation: http://samba.org/~tridge/gplv3_sydney.pdf
- Audio and video of the sessions (total of 6, in Ogg, QT and WMV format. Eben Moglen video link and phone link have quality issues.)
Free Software Foundation Resources
- GNU General Public License, Discussion Draft 2 of Version 3 (27 July 2006)
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Free Software Foundation, “Opinion on Additional Terms” (3 August 2006)
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Free Software Foundation, “Opinion on Patent Retaliation” (3 August 2006)
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Free Software Foundation, “Opinion on Denationalization of Terminology” (3 August 2006)
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Free Software Foundation, “GPLv3 Second Discussion Draft Rationale” (27 July 2006)
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Free Software Foundation, “GNU General Public License, Discussion Draft 2 of Version 3-with comments” (27 July 2006)
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Free Software Foundation, “GPLv3 Process Definition” (15 January 2006)
For more information see also the Free Software Foundation GPLv3 website and wiki.
Journal Articles
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Doug Ferguson, “Syntax Errors: Why Version 3 of the GNU Public License Needs Debugging” (Spring 2006) 7 North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology 2
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Andrés Guadamuz González, “GNU General Public License v3: A Legal Analysis” (June 2006) 3 Script ED 2
News/Magazine Articles
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Red Herring, “Linus Torvalds on the GPL Fight” (29 September 2006)
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Edward Macnaghten, “Views on the GPLv3 hoo-har” (29 September 2006)
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, “GPLv3 could kill open source, top Linux dev's warn” (22 September 2006)
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Steven Shankland, “Linux Lab: GPL Clarification needed ASAP” (20 September 2006)
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Mayank Sharma, “Report on the Fourth Annual GPLv3 Conference” (5 September 2006)
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NewsForge Staff, “GPLv3 Draft Analysis” (January 17 2006)
Speeches
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Richard Stallman, “Transcript of Richard Stallman at the 4th international GPLv3 conference” (23 August 2006)
Wiki/Blog
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Linus Torvalds, “An Ode to GPLv2” (24 September 2006)
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James E.J. Bottomley, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, Thomas Gleixner Christoph Hellwig, Dave Jones, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Tony Luck, Andrew Morton, Trond Myklebust and David Woodhouse, “The Dangers and Problems with GPLv3 – Kernel Developers Position of GPLv3” (15 September 2006)
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Foundation for Free Information Infrastructure, “Amendments to GPLv3 so that it is relevant to the copyright versus patent debate in Europe and elsewhere” (27 August 2006)
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Andres Guadamuz, “New Draft on GPL v 3 published” (July 31 2006)