The European Commission announced its Digital Agenda. The five-year plan will set the pace for telecommunications in Europe and focuses on seven areas, including creating a digital single market, interoperability and faster broadband.
The next version of the GPL (General Public License), GPL 3, is likely to appear in early 2007, according to a board member of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) who is working on drafting the future release.The GPL is the most popular license for free software and was created by Richard Stallman in 1989 for the GNU free software operating system project.