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GPL – Richard Stallman directed the first draft of the Gnu Public License (GPL) in 1991. The newest version, GPLv3, is being drafted by Stallman with legal counsel from Eben Moglen, professor of law and history of law at Columbia University.

Free Software – Free Software is a matter of freedom, not cost. It is a matter of liberty, not price. The word `free' in Free Software has a similar meaning as in free speech, free people and free country and should not be confused with its other meaning associated with zero-cost. Think of Free Software as software which is free of encumbrances, not necessarily free of cost.

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"Business will overcome its opposition to Creative Commons or perish" http://http://www.techradar.com/news/software/-business-will-overcome-its-opposi tion-to-creative-commons-or-perish--705099?src=rss&attr=all Says Joi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons, the nonprofit organisation that’s creating and overseeing the use of free-of-charge licences and tools to ensure content creators can easily mark how they’d like their works to be used online. Oliver Lindberg - TechRadar : July 2010

Creative Commons http://www.creativecommons.org/ "A nonprofit company developing ways for artists, writers and others to easily designate their work as freely shareable." "The idea is to provide licenses that allow sharing but that are also enforceable. they have developed logos and wording that will allow you to license your work or mark your work in ways that are more friendly for sharing than current copyright or simple public domain but fill some spaces in between. These options will include, non-commercial only, private use only, copyleft, attribution required, and the like." Creative Commons : 2006

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"Free software does not mean it's free and cheap" http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=137885 "Free software is all about freedom - freedom of the users to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. I believe there are four kinds of freedom for the software users. I have identified four human rights. These are also rights that would define free software." Richard Stallman : 2006

Free Software Foundation of India http://www.fsf.org.in/ "FSF India is a non-profit organisation committed to advocating, promoting and propagating the use and development of swatantra [free] software in India." FSF India : 2006

Past Speeches by Richard Stallman http://www.fsf.org/events/past-rms-speeches.html?b_start:int=0 Speeches from 2005 and 2006 Richard Stallman : 2006

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10 common misunderstandings about the GPL http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/21/1659203 "The GNU General Public License (GPL) is one of the most widely used software licenses -- and, undoubtedly, the most misunderstood. Some of this misunderstanding comes from hostile propaganda, but some also comes from a lack of experience in licensing issues on the part of both lawyers and lay users, ..." Bruce Byfield : August 2006

Free software: taking on dominant market forces http://www.hindu.com/seta/2006/08/31/stories/2006083100441500.htm Excerpts from an interview with Richard Stallman by Anand Sankar on the sidelines of the 4th International GPLv3 Conference held at Bangalore The Hindu : August 2006

Transcript of Richard Stallman at the 4th international GPLv3 conference http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/bangalore-rms-transcript "Richard Stallman's presentation made at the fourth international GPLv3 conference, organised by FSF India in Bangalore, India, with the Bangalore Free Software Users Group." With Question and Answer session. Richard Stallman : 23 August 2006

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