[ftisa-discuss] Other swpats battle: GPLv3

[Ciaran O'Riordan]

Hi all,

While the legislative battle is the most important one, there is another
branch of the battle against software patents taking place this year in the
free software community.

A new version of free software's core licence, the GNU GPL, is being
written.  It can't make the software patent problem go away, but it should
do whatever is possible to reduce the harm for free software users and
developers.

A year-long public consultation was launched in January to assist this
drafting.  If you folk have something to say about South African law, or
patents, or anything that affects the GPL, this is the year to say it.

Here's info on how to make comments, etc.:
http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/#participate

Here are video and audio recordings of the 3rd international GPLv3
conference:
http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/europe-gplv3-conference

Transcripts of Stallman and Moglen's presentations from that conference:
http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/barcelona-rms-transcript
http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/barcelona-moglen-transcript

Here's a Dutch translation of Stallman's talk at the 2nd GPLv3 conference:
http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/fisl-rms-transcript.nl.html

(If you could pass that link on to any relevant Afrikaans-speaking online
communities, they might find it useful - this is something I can't do since
I don't know where those communities are.)


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