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GPL.next
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GPL.next is an experimental fork of the GNU General Public License,
version 3. Contributions of patches, ideas, and criticism are
welcome. Forks in the GitHub sense are encouraged. The goal of this
effort is to develop an improved strong copyleft free software
license. Needless to say, no one should actually *use* a development
version of GPL.next as an actual license.
**This is *not* an effort endorsed by the Free Software Foundation or
the GNU Project. This is also *not* an effort associated in any way
with (e.g.) Red Hat, the Software Freedom Conservancy, or any other
corporate entity.** Contributors are expected to participate in their
individual capacity.
The FSF has asserted copyright in the text of the GNU GPLv3. However,
the FSF has expressly authorized (though discouraged) modified
versions of the GNU GPL, subject to certain conditions:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL
Every effort shall be made to make this fork compatible with all
existing (and future) versions of the GNU GPL, which addresses one of
the FSF's concerns about modified versions of the GNU GPL.
The meta-license from the FSF stated in its FAQ shall be the license
of all versions of the GPL.next license text (to the extent that such
versions retain any copyrightable material from versions of the GNU
GPL in which the FSF has asserted copyright). Based on the FSF FAQ,
that meta-license may be stated as follows:
* Everyone has permission to use terms from any version of the GNU GPL
(with or without modifications) in creating a new license text,
without any restriction, other than these requirements: (1) the
license must be "call[ed] ... by another name"; (2) no existing
version of a GNU license Preamble may be included; and (3) if the
instructions-for-use at the end of the GNU GPL are copied or
adapted, they must be modified "enough to make it clearly different
in wording and not mention GNU".
The name "GPL.next" is considered to be "another name" in the sense
meant in this meta-license. (It would be a violation of the
meta-license to use the "GNU" name, of course.) The "G" in "GPL" does
not stand for "GNU", but "General"; "GPL" means "license to (or for)
the general public", and is justifiably regarded as the earliest
generic term for a FLOSS license.
A couple of people have nevertheless questioned use of the name
"GPL.next" on the apparent assumption that the FSF holds a proprietary
interest in the initialism "GPL". If this represents general sentiment
and/or the view of RMS, the name of the project, and the name of the
associated draft license, will certainly be changed with all
speed. ("Copyleft.next" has been suggested as an alternative name by
one critic and potential participant, but other suggestions are
welcome.)
All copyrightable materials included in this project, other than any
copied or adapted portions of GNU license texts and except where
otherwise indicated, are dedicated to the public domain to the maximum
extent permitted by applicable law, pursuant to the Creative Commons
CC0 Universal Public Domain Dedication 1.0 (see the file CC0 for
details).