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42 Hous. L. Rev. 1015 (2005-2006)
General Public License 3.0: Hacking the Free Software Movement's Constitution

handle is hein.journals/hulr42 and id is 1027 raw text is: GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE 3.0: HACKING THE FREE SOFTWARE MOVEMENT'S CONSTITUTION Robert W. Gomulkiewicz* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION .................................................................. 1016 II. A QUICK SOFTWARE TUTORIAL ......................................... 1018 III. WHAT MAKES SOFTWARE FREE (OR NOT) ..................... 1019 IV. How COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING CREATE THE FOUNDATION FOR SOFTWARE FREEDOM ........................... 1022 V. CREATION OF THE GPL ...................................................... 1024 VI. WHY STALLMAN CARES ABOUT LICENSING AND THE ROLE THE GPL PLAYS IN SOFTWARE FREEDOM ......... 1025 VII. GPL 3.0: THE REVISION PROCESS ..................................... 1027 VIII. GPL 3.0: THE SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES .................................. 1028 A. A Few Important Definitions to Fix ......................... 1028 1. The Heart of Copyleft-GPL Section 2(b) ........ 1028 2. Clarifying GPL Section 2(b) ............................ 1030 B. Some Problems with Patents .................................... 1033 C. Other Issues on the Table ......................................... 1034 Director, Intellectual Property Law and Policy Program and Associate Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law. I owe thanks to the participants at the 2005 IPIL/Houston Santa Fe Conference: Transactions, Information and Emerging Law, and the Pacific Intellectual Property Scholars Conference for their comments on drafts of this Article. Thanks are also due to Signe Brunstad, Karen Copenhaver, Jonathan Franklin, David McGowan, Heather Meeker, and University of Washington School of Law students Sean Kellogg, Bill Snyder, and David Tilton for useful discussions. Jolene Lau Marshall provided valuable research assistance. Finally, I am grateful for research funding provided by the Shidler Center for Law, Commerce, and Technology. 1015

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