In 2006 the FSF published the draft for the new version of the GNU General Public License and concurrently started a worldwide discussion and consultation with interested parties. This process of revision ended on June 29th 2007 with the publication of the new version of the license. The FSF had two goals when revising the license. First, the existing rights granted to the users were to be safeguarded taking into account the contemporary legal and technical environment. Especially important in this regard were the hotly debated topics of software patents and digital rights management. Additionally the broad international use of the license was to be facilitated. At the same time the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) was modernized and published as version 3 as well. Read More...