According to an MSNBC article, upcoming changes to the GPL could penalize patents and DRM.
From the article:
“Software patents are clearly a menace to society and innovation. We like this to be more explicit. The basic idea is that if someone patents software, he loses the right to use free software. It’s like a patent retaliation clause,” Greve said.
Stallman will write a draft version of the new GPL by December, after which it will be evaluated by thousands of organizations, software developers and software users in 2006.
Good idea, but will this actually reduce patents and DRM? Possibly, but I’m not sure.
