This is big, folks! You can read about it here or here or by following links from this story on Groklaw, which points to Sun's press release. Check out the banner picture.
I don't think I'm exagerating when I say that this is going to have as big an influence on the software scene as Netscape's open-source release of Mozilla, and probably a lot faster.
The draft of the GPL Version 3 is available for public comment. It looks pretty good -- some fuzzy spots have been clarified, DRM and software patents have been addressed, and it has been made more compatible with some other licenses. (I'm not exactly clear on which other licenses at this point.)
The other interesting thing to me, as a developer with a long-standing interest in annotation systems and interactive web sites, and a growing interest in AJAX, was the elegant annotation system that allows users to select a piece of text and type "c" to submit a comment. Naturally, it's licensed under the GPL version 3 (which isn't finalized yet) -- I'm not sure what it says about me that I find that amusing.
