Which is unfortunate because it means it's impossible to create a future version of the GPL that actually protects the rights of users in the modern world. GPL

Which is unfortunate because it means it's impossible to create a future version of the GPL that actually protects the rights of users in the modern world. GPLv4 should really be based on the AGPL, but that would violate freedom zero. The restrictions in the GPL are becoming increasingly pointless. For a large section of the computing industry the GPL is functionally identical to the liberal BSD style licences because the program will never be "distributed", only made available over a network.