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%% complete the drafting of this license following the release of Draft 3,
%% with a goal of having a final version available by the time of our
%% adoption of the final version of GPLv3. We hope the new Affero license
%% will satisfy those developers who are concerned about the issue of
%% public use of unconveyed versions but who have concerns about the
%% narrowness of the condition in the existing Affero license.
%% As the second sentence in section 13 indicates, when a combined work is
%% made by linking GPLv3-covered code with Affero-covered code, the
%% copyleft on one part will not extend to the other part.\footnote{The
%% plan is that the additional requirement of the new Affero license will
%% state a reciprocal limitation.} That is to say, in such combinations,
%% the Affero requirement will apply only to the part that was brought into
%% the combination under the Affero license. Those who receive such a
%% combination and do not wish to use code under the Affero requirement may
%% remove the Affero-covered portion of the combination.
Meanwhile, those who criticize the permission to link with code under the Affero
GPL should recognize that most other free software licenses also permit
such linking.
\section{GPLv3~\S14: So, When's GPLv4?}
\label{GPLv3s14}
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No substantive change has been made in section 14. The wording of the section
has been revised slightly to make it clearer.
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It's unclear when the FSF might consider publishing GPLv4. However, this
section makes it clear that the FSF is the sole authority who can decide
such.
The main addition to this section allows a third-party proxy to be appointed
by contributors who wish someone else to make relicensing to new versions of
GPL when they are released. This is a ``halfway'' point between using ``-only''
or ``-or-later'' by consolidating the decision-making on that issue to a
single authority.
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\section{GPLv3~\S15--17: Warranty Disclaimers and Liability Limitation}
No substantive changes have been made in sections 15 and 16.
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Some have asked us to address the difficulties of internationalization
by including, or permitting the inclusion of, a choice of law
provision. We maintain that this is the wrong approach. Free
software licenses should not contain choice of law clauses, for both
legal and pragmatic reasons. Choice of law clauses are creatures of
contract, but the substantive rights granted by the GPL are defined
under applicable local copyright law. Contractual free software
licenses can operate only to diminish these rights. Choice of law
clauses also raise complex questions of interpretation when works of
software are created by combination and extension. There is also the
real danger that a choice of law clause will specify a jurisdiction
that is hostile to free software principles.