[Solar-general] Re: [Info-gplv3] GPLv3 First Discussion Draft

Jue Ene 19 19:13:36 CET 2006

Por si a alguien le interesa el derecho del SL, draft de GPL version 3

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>The first discussion draft of the GNU General Public License Version 3 has been
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>The new draft and web resources are available at <http://gplv3.fsf.org>. We
>welcome your comments on the wording of the new version at
><http://gplv3.fsf.org/comments/>.
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