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This is where the drafting and comment process itself will be discussed. The content is technical and administrative, rather than political.

• Who are the mysterious committees A, B, C, D and E at present?

• Why has the GPLv3 Process been modelled on the terrible processes of the WGIG, instead of harnessing the free-software-friendly organisations already existing around the world?

(The above questions should be regarded as released under a MIT/X11-style permission to use for any purpose, not the GPL-incompatible FDL 1.2. I don't require any journalists wanting to use these questions to include the full FDL.)