Re: French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software

Jerome Dominguez a écrit :

>On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:19:41AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
>  
>
>>On 30-Nov-2005, Jerome Dominguez wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>SNEP and SCPP tell Free Software authors: "You shall change your
>>>licenses." SACEM add: "You shall stop publishing free software," and
>>>warn they are ready "to sue free software authors who will keep on
>>>publishing source code" should the "VU/SACEM/BSA/FA Contents
>>>Department"[1] bill pass in the Parliament.
>>>
>>>URL: http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html 
>>>      
>>>
>>What action can be taken by French citizens? By other people? How soon
>>must action be taken?
>>    
>>
>
>I'm afraid that only French citizens can do something. The EUCD.INFO initiative proposes some actions :
http://www.eucd.info/agir 
>
>The EUCD.INFO initiative was launched by FSF France.
>
>  
>

Re: French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software

That's the wrong answer. Is not only up to the French citizen. Is likely 
to tell that the worldwide pressure that Amnesty International does on 
each single HR violation is void, but is not. All of us can do some, 
writing letters to the French Prime Minster AND the French President to 
tell them that they just CAN'T decide that "I'm not free to share my 
knowledge"... this is like to try to control my mind, so is a violation 
of the basic Human Rights... no way! All of us we MUST write them and 
collect undersignatures to the open letter and physically send it to them.

Don't think that this is just a French issue!

Cheers
Pino

Jerome Dominguez wrote:

>On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:19:41AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
>  
>
>>On 30-Nov-2005, Jerome Dominguez wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>SNEP and SCPP tell Free Software authors: "You shall change your
>>>licenses." SACEM add: "You shall stop publishing free software," and
>>>warn they are ready "to sue free software authors who will keep on
>>>publishing source code" should the "VU/SACEM/BSA/FA Contents
>>>Department"[1] bill pass in the Parliament.
>>>
>>>URL: http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html 
>>>      

Re: French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software

That's the wrong answer. Is not only up to the French citizen. Is likely 
to tell that the worldwide pressure that Amnesty International does on 
each single HR violation is void, but is not. All of us can do some, 
writing letters to the French Prime Minster AND the French President to 
tell them that they just CAN'T decide that "I'm not free to share my 
knowledge"... this is like to try to control my mind, so is a violation 
of the basic Human Rights... no way! All of us we MUST write them and 
collect undersignatures to the open letter and physically send it to them.

Don't think that this is just a French issue!

Cheers
Pino

Jerome Dominguez wrote:

>On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:19:41AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
>  
>
>>On 30-Nov-2005, Jerome Dominguez wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>SNEP and SCPP tell Free Software authors: "You shall change your
>>>licenses." SACEM add: "You shall stop publishing free software," and
>>>warn they are ready "to sue free software authors who will keep on
>>>publishing source code" should the "VU/SACEM/BSA/FA Contents
>>>Department"[1] bill pass in the Parliament.
>>>
>>>URL: http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html 
>>>      

Re: French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 22:19 +0000, Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 18:50 +0100, Jerome Dominguez wrote:
> > 25 November 2005. FSF France press release. Friday November 18th,
> > 2005, French Department of Culture. SNEP and SCPP tell Free Software
> > authors: "You shall change your licenses." SACEM add: "You shall stop
> > publishing free software," and warn they are ready "to sue free
> > software authors who will keep on publishing source code" should the
> > "VU/SACEM/BSA/FA Contents Department"[1] bill pass in the Parliament.
> 
> Could someone explain exactly what the problem is here?
> 
> >From reading the article, I get the impression that the bill seeks to
> prevent software accessing media without some form of DRM, which seems a
> step beyond the already bad EUCD situation - is that right?

From what little I understood...

Imagine you use Firefox to download a DRM'ed Windows Media Video file.
Firefox would have to respect the copy prohibition embedded in that .WMV
file, if it doesn't, it would be illegal to use it.

Now imagine Firefox DOES respect the copy prohibition. Since Firefox is
Free Software, it can be modified so it WON'T respect the prohibition.
As such, it would be illegal to use it.

These two situations are an example of what that law would turn illegal.

If you dig to a lower level, maybe the network card driver should
analise the content, I think.

Re: Document about Free Software/Open Source

Thank you Frank.
I got
* http://www.deshalbfrei.org/
from another list-reader here. It's interesting, it seems
that germany is quite active with open source.

Frank Koormann wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> * C. Grobmeier <grobmeier@...> [051128 14:55]:
>> as a fan of fs/os i want to see more acceptance for this in my company.
>> I have figured out, that even programmers in my company have lack of
>> knowledge about FS/OS. To change this, i would like to collect 
>> information and write a document about this. Well, i searched amazon
>> and didn't find any book. Google brought billions of hits.
> 
> Since you seem to be located in Germany, have you found already the book
> by Volker Grassmuck (published by the  Bundeszentrale für politische
> Bildung, also downloadable as PDF)
> 
> http://freie-software.bpb.de/
> 
> Regards,
> 
>         Frank
> 

Re: French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software

Jerome Dominguez wrote:

>25 November 2005. FSF France press release. Friday November 18th, 2005, French Department of Culture.
>SNEP and SCPP tell Free Software authors: "You shall change your licenses." SACEM add: "You shall 
>stop publishing free software," and warn they are ready "to sue free software authors who 
>will keep on publishing source code" should the "VU/SACEM/BSA/FA Contents Department"[1] bill 
>pass in the Parliament.
>
>URL: http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html 
>
>  
>
xenophobia to the last consequences...

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Vienna Manipulations: it gets ever more interesting

Hi all,

just realised, that this story was not yet posted to discussion. But I
think it might be interested to you. So here is the link to Georg's
latest blog entry:

http://www.fsfe.org/en/fellows/greve/freedom_bits/vienna_manipulations_it_gets_ever_more_interesting

With best wishes,
Matze

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Name for free software project?

Hi,

I hope this is the right place for such a question.

While I was discussing a free software project with a friend, we came to the 
question how to name our project.

The problem: It's nearly impossible to find a name that isn't used somewhere 
else. And even if the name is absolutely new, you can't be sure if someone 
thinks that it sounds similar to something else.
Now, how can someone be sure to choose a name for a project and that I won't 
be sued for it?
As there were a lot of strange lawsuits because of project names (e.g. the 
mobilix-case), it seems nearly impossible to be safe with it.

Any suggestions about that?

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Re: French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software

Giuseppe De Francesco a écrit :

> That's the wrong answer. Is not only up to the French citizen. Is 
> likely to tell that the worldwide pressure that Amnesty International 
> does on each single HR violation is void, but is not. All of us can do 
> some, writing letters to the French Prime Minster AND the French 
> President to tell them that they just CAN'T decide that "I'm not free 
> to share my knowledge"... this is like to try to control my mind, so 
> is a violation of the basic Human Rights... no way! All of us we MUST 
> write them and collect undersignatures to the open letter and 
> physically send it to them.
>
> Don't think that this is just a French issue!
>
> Cheers
> Pino

We can also build a team of translators. They are asking to trad-GNU to 
do it for the site. I can help for the begining.

M.

Re: French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software

I'm on. I've no time to organize but any help I can give, count on it. I 
can translate:
French into Italian
French into English (british)
Italian into English (british)
Italian into French
Italian into English (british)
English into French
English into Italian
Spanish into Italian
Spanish into English (british)

Cheers
Pino

miluz wrote:

> ---->CUT<----
> We can also build a team of translators. They are asking to trad-GNU 
> to do it for the site. I can help for the begining.
>
> M.
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