Tuesday, September 20, 2011
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Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Re: [FSF] This Saturday: Software Freedom Day 2011
I apologize to anyone who received an incorrect date in the email that was sent out yesterday. Software Freedom Day is in fact this Saturday, September 17th.
Thanks again to Software Freedom International for starting and continuing the Software Freedom Day tradition!
Sincerely,
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
[FSF] This Saturday: Software Freedom Day 2011
Worldwide, there are over 400 Software Freedom Day events scheduled so far for this Saturday, September 19th! If you are in the Boston area, you can join some of the FSF staff and local free software supporters at an event being hosted by OpenHatch in Cambridge, MA.
- Global SFD events list: http://softwarefreedomday.org/map/index.php?year=2011#teamlist
- SFD Boston event details: http://openhatch.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Day_2011_Boston
But, even if you aren't able to join us or another event in your area, we hope that you will be celebrating SFD in your own way -- be it talking with friends about free software, writing a blog post on a computer-user freedom issue important to you, or hacking on a free software project. Whatever it may be, we would love to hear how you celebrated Software Freedom Day; so, please send us an email at campaigns@fsf.org letting us know what you did.
Sincerely,
Josh and the FSF team
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Thursday, September 1, 2011
[FSF] Free Software Supporter -- Issue 41, August 2011
Free Software Supporter
Issue 41, August 2011
Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation's monthly news digest and action update -- being read by you and 45,864 other activists. That's 1375 more than last month!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Sign our petition to ask This American Life to support free formats!
- Android GPLv2 termination worries: one more reason to upgrade to GPLv3
- Europe's "unitary patent" could mean unlimited software patents
- Software Freedom Day: September 17th
- GNU Emacs Manual, Sixteenth Edition for Version 23.3 now available
- Let Barnes & Noble know that the Nook is Defective by Design
- Spotify is Defective by Design
- Free Technology Academy courses start September 12th!
- Send in your nominations for the Nordic Free Software Award!
- A selection of photographs from some of RMS's past events
- Speaking of software patents
- FSF seeks full-time senior GNU/Linux systems administrator
- LibrePlanet featured resource: LibrePlanet Events Calendar
- GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry
- Richard Stallman's speaking schedule
- Other FSF and free software events
- Take action with the FSF
Sign our petition to ask This American Life to support free formats!
Ogg supporters sent great emails to This American Life thanking them for their show detailing the problems with software patents and asking them to be part of the solution by using Ogg Vorbis instead of patent-encumbered MP3. Find out more about our initial call to action, read some of the letters people have been sending, and sign the petition and make your voice heard!
Android GPLv2 termination worries: one more reason to upgrade to GPLv3
Android's commercial success has brought with it an uptick of GPL violation reports. In this news article, Brett Smith urges Android vendors and developers of the Kernel Linux to make the switch go GPLv3 to take advantage of the improved termination agreements as it will allow the free software community to "get both compliance and more allies."
Europe's "unitary patent" could mean unlimited software patents
Richard Stallman published an article for The Guardian in which he outlines the history, politics-behind, and dangers of the EU's Unitary Patent proposal.
- End Software Patents reprint: http://news.swpat.org/2011/08/europes-unitary-patent-could-mean-unlimited-software-patents/
- The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/22/european-unitary-patent-software-warning
- More information about the drawbacks and legal flaws of this plan can be found at http://unitary-patent.eu
Software Freedom Day: September 17th
Software Freedom Day is right around the corner and there are events all around the world this year! In Boston, we will be joining free software activist and former FSF staffer, Deb Nicholson and Boston-area free software communities for a hands-on and fun day of activities and socializing.
SFD Events map: http://softwarefreedomday.org/map/index.php?year=2011
Boston SFD event: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/sfd-2011-local-does-compute
GNU Emacs Manual, Sixteenth Edition for Version 23.3 now available
We here at GNU Press are proud to announce the release of the latest version of our GNU Emacs Manual for GNU Emacs version 23.3. This latest edition updates one our most popular reference manuals for the current version of GNU Emacs. Much has been added since the previous release, and the new manual features almost a hundred pages of additional documentation.
- Learn more: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/emacs-23.3-manual
- Purchase: http://shop.fsf.org/product/emacs_manual_23/
Let Barnes & Noble know that the Nook is Defective by Design
The Nook represents a real threat to users because of its invasive DRM, close relationship with DRM champions Adobe, and because of its use of the Android operating system -- which might lead many to think the Nook is not defective by design. Read more about your alternatives to using DRM-infected Android system and how you can take action, now!
Spotify is Defective by Design
The music streaming service Spotify uses Digital Restrictions Management (DRM); we are asking you to join us in saying NO to Spotify's invitations and to help us make our message clear by sending letters to Spotify's CEO.
Free Technology Academy courses start September 12th!
The Free Technology Academy (FTA) is a joint initiative from several educational institutions in various countries. It aims to contribute to a society that permits all users to study, participate and build upon existing knowledge without restrictions. Some of the things being taught this term include the relationship between free software and free standards, and a focus on deployments of free software.
Remember: 30 FSF associate members can receive a discount on these courses for each trimester, so sign-up now for the fall term!
Send in your nominations for the Nordic Free Software Award!
The Nordic Free Software Award is given to people, projects or organizations in the Nordic countries that have made a prominent contribution to the advancement of free software.
The award will be announced during the FSCONS (Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit) 2011 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Nominations should be made by email and the nomination period ends on October 22nd.
A selection of photographs from some of RMS's past events
Richard Stallman gives talks all over the world to many different kinds of groups, in a variety of venues, and in a few different languages. See some of the photographs from events over the past several months.
- http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/a-selection-of-photographs-from-some-of-rmss-past-events
- http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/20110307-fds-london
Speaking of software patents
Rob Tiller (Red Hat) has posted an interesting article about three mainstream articles (NPR, The Economist, Professor Mark Lemley) discussing problems caused by software patents. We've put together a nice summary of the article along with additional links.
- End Software Patents summary: http://news.swpat.org/2011/08/more-than-trolls/
- The original article: http://opensource.com/law/11/8/speaking-software-patents
FSF seeks full-time senior GNU/Linux systems administrator
"The ideal candidate will be a well-rounded GNU/Linux systems administrator who enjoys learning and problem-solving. (S)he will be familiar with the free software community and how it works, and will be more interested in making a substantial contribution to software freedom and having employment consistent with ethical ideals than obtaining the highest salary."
Interested in applying or know someone else who you think should?
LibrePlanet featured resource: LibrePlanet Events Calendar
Each month, we feature an interesting resource, group, or project in-progress on the wiki. For this month, we are featuring the LibrePlanet Events Calendar. There were a number of free software events that landed on the calendar in August and even more are schedule for September. If you or any of your groups are hosting in event, please add it to the calendar.
Do you have a suggestion for next month's featured resource? Let us know at campaigns@fsf.org.
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry
New GNU releases: archimedes-1.0.0 gnupg-2.0.18 pem-0.7.9 bzr-2.4.0 gnutls-2.12.9 rcs-5.8 diffutils-3.1 gnutls-3.0.1 sipwitch-1.1.1 gama-1.11 gsrc-1.0.1 tramp-2.2.2 gdbm-1.9.1 icecat-6.0 wget-1.13.3 glpk-4.46 libiconv-1.14 xnee-3.10 gnuhealth.1.3.1 parallel-20110822 xorriso-1.1.4
To get announcements of most new GNU releases, subscribe to the info-gnu mailing list: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu. Nearly all GNU software is available from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/, or preferably one of its mirrors (http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html). You can use the url http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ to be automatically redirected to a (hopefully) nearby and up-to-date mirror.
This month we welcome Adrienne Thompson as the maintainer of the new GNU package c-graph, and Luis Falcon as the maintainer of the new package Health. We also welcome Hartmut Rosch as the new maintainer of maverik, and Julia Longtin as the new maintain of gift. Finally, we welcome Micheal Harker as co-maintainer of gnatsweb, and Stefano Lattarini and Jim Meyering as co-maintainers of Automake.
I'd like to specially mention the first release of GNU GSRC http://www.gnu.org/software/gsrc/, providing a simple way to install GNU packages from their original sources, entirely independent of any distro packaging system.
Another special mention must go to the new package GNU Health http://www.gnu.org/software/health, a large health and hospital information system, which the United Nations Institute of Global Health in Malaysia is starting to use throughout the region.
Several GNU packages are looking for maintainers and other assistance. Please see http://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint if you'd like to help. The general page on how to help GNU is at http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html. To submit new packages to GNU, see http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
As always, please feel free to write to me, karl@gnu.org, with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.
Richard Stallman's speaking schedule
2011-09-02 Event Por una sociedad digital libre, Neuquen, Argentina
2011-09-03 Event El movimiento del software libre, Neuquen, Argentina
2011-09-05 Event El software libre y tu libertad, Misiones Posadas, Argentina
2011-09-07 Event El movimiento del software libre, Ciudad de la Plata, Argentina
2011-09-09 Event Por una sociedad digital libre, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011-09-14 Event Mar del Plata, Argentina, Mar del Plata, Argentina
Other FSF and free software events
2011-09-02 LibreOffice Hackfest 2011, Munich, Germany
2011-09-17 Software Freedom Day, Events Around the World
- Map: http://softwarefreedomday.org/map/index.php?year=2011
- Table: http://softwarefreedomday.org/map/index.php?year=2011#teamlist
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Join the petition asking for This American Life in Ogg Vorbis, and help us reach 5,000 signatures
This American Life still hasn't responded to your many messages asking them to use Ogg Vorbis for their downloads and streams. Sign the petition and make your voice heard!
Ogg supporters have sent great emails to This American Life thanking them for their show detailing the problems with software patents and asking them to be part of the solution by using Ogg Vorbis instead of patent-encumbered MP3. Here's one letter, from Matt Kraai:
Thank you for creating "When Patents Attack!" As one of the 80% of software developers who believe that software patents are harmful both to the software industry and to society as a whole, I was happy to see you bringing awareness of this issue to a larger audience.
As you're probably aware by now, the MP3 audio file format that you use to distribute your episodes online is also covered by some software patents. Would you please consider also distributing the episodes using the Ogg Vorbis format? It produces files of comparable size and quality and is not covered by any software patents.
Thanks again for such a great episode,
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We'd like to thank those of you who have written in to the show so far; you all have made countless great points to help illustrate how the MP3 file format has suffered from the same kinds of problems they discussed in last month's episode.
Sadly, we haven't seen or heard about any response from This American Life, even after we made an Ogg version of the show ourselves and offered it to them. We've successfully convinced other public broadcasters like WBUR to use Ogg Vorbis after making that first contact, and we think we can repeat that success here if we can just get a real conversation started. To help with that, we've started a petition to show them just how many people would like to see This American Life available as Ogg Vorbis.
Make your voice heard by signing the petition today! We're working to get 5,000 signatures by September 7, when we'll deliver the first batch, so sign now and make sure you're part of it. It's really easy—we're only asking your name, email address, and a couple of questions about how much you love This American Life and local public radio. After that, you'll get a verification email; click the link in it, and you're done!
Once you've signed, there are other ways you can help:
Spread the word about this petition by sharing it with your friends and colleagues—the more signatures we get, the better.
If you haven't already, you can still send a personal note to This American Life asking them to use Ogg Vorbis. You can write them email at web@thislife.org (don't forget to send us a copy at campaigns@fsf.org), or send a message on Twitter to @ThisAmerLife. Remember that you don't need to use the Twitter website (with its proprietary JavaScript) directly when you do this; instead, you can connect your Twitter account to your Identi.ca account and send it that way, or use a local free software client like Gwibber or HeyBuddy.
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Friday, August 19, 2011
Android GPLv2 termination worries: one more reason to upgrade to GPLv3
Distributors lose their rights when they violate GPLv2, but the Free Software Foundation is more forgiving in its license enforcement to encourage continued participation in the free software community. GPLv3 has improved termination provisions to codify this approach, giving developers one more reason to upgrade.
Thanks to Android's commercial success, the kernel Linux, which is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2, is being distributed more than ever before. Whenever someone distributes GPL-covered software, they must follow a few conditions set forth in the license. These conditions try to give anyone who receives the software both the legal permission and the practical tools necessary to change and share the software themselves if they wish.
Not all of the companies that distribute Android heed these conditions. We've witnessed an uptick in GPL violation reports—some convincing, others incomplete or misinformed—against these vendors. We generally can't pursue these violations directly, because only copyright holders can enforce free software licenses in most countries, and few Android devices use FSF-copyrighted code. However, people still seek out our opinions about the relevant parts of the GPL, and that discussion has recently turned to GPLv2's termination provisions. Section 4 of the license says, “You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your rights under this License.”
When we enforce the license of FSF-copyrighted software, we give violators back the rights they had after they come into compliance. In our experience, developers of Linux are happy to do the same. Unfortunately, even if we assume they all would restore these rights, it would be extremely difficult to have them all formally do so; there are simply too many copyright holders involved, some of whom haven't worked on the project in years or even decades.
When we wrote GPLv2 in 1991, we didn't imagine that a free software project might have hundreds of copyright holders, making it so difficult to get a violator's rights restored. We want it to be easy for a former violator to know that they're still allowed to change and share the software; if they stop distribution because of legal uncertainty, fewer people will have free software in the long run. Hence, we created new termination provisions for GPLv3. These terms offer violators a simple method to earn back the rights they had. Parties who violate the license have their rights restored provisionally as soon as they come back into compliance, and permanently if no copyright holders terminate those rights within sixty days of the last violation. Furthermore, first-time violators will have their rights restored permanently if they come into compliance within thirty days of receiving such notice.
GPLv3's approach has several advantages over GPLv2's. By having the license grant forgiveness by default, instead of terminating rights permanently, it better matches our community's expectations and normal compliance strategy. It will be easier for violators to get their rights restored by any copyright holders who do terminate rights, because the notice will establish a clear way for the violator to get in touch. Finally, GPLv3's termination provisions don't sacrifice anything we need: the license's conditions still do their best to protect software freedom, and copyright holders will still be able to legally enforce the license against parties that don't comply.
This is just one of many reasons why GPLv3 is better than GPLv2. This change has already given some companies the reassuring nudge they needed to start distributing GPL-covered software, and we expect to see more of that in the future. When we give distributors a chance to rejoin the free software community and fix any mistakes they might make—in stark contrast to most proprietary software licenses—we get both compliance and more allies. GPLv3 improves on earlier versions of the license by codifying that enforcement strategy. For this reason and others, we urge developers who are releasing projects under GPLv2 to upgrade to GPLv3. Companies that sell products that use Android can help out by encouraging the developers of Linux to make the switch to GPLv3.
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Friday, July 1, 2011
[FSF] Free Software Supporter -- Issue 39, June 2011
Free Software Supporter
Issue 39, June 2011
Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation's monthly news digest and action update -- being read by you and 43,202 other activists. That's 1,445 more than last month!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Statement on OpenOffice.org's move to Apache
- AVM violating license of the Linux kernel
- Two new projects can help free software replace Skype
- Are you up to the Tor challenge?
- Introducing the Compliance Lab's summer intern
- Holding Nintendo Accountable
- LibrePlanet featured resource
- GNU spotlight with Karl Berry
- Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF events
- Take action with the FSF!
Statement on OpenOffice.org's move to Apache
Oracle, IBM, and the Apache Software Foundation jointly announced earlier this month that OpenOffice.org would become an official Apache project. Users and contributors should be aware that it will become easier for proprietary software developers to distribute OpenOffice.org as nonfree software since all Apache projects are distributed under the terms of the Apache License.
While we do recommend the Apache License in specific situations, we do not believe it is the best choice for software like OpenOffice.org. This situation calls for copyleft, because the gains free software stands to make from a non-copyleft license don't justify giving a handout to proprietary software developers.
AVM violating license of the Linux kernel
A legal case is being heard before the District Court of Berlin which may have enormous consequences for the way that software is developed and distributed. The adversaries in the case are the manufacturer and distributor of DSL routers AVM Computersysteme Vertriebs GmbH (AVM), and Cybits AG (Cybits) which produces children's web-filtering software.
The case was brought to court by AVM with the aim of preventing Cybits from changing any parts of the firmware used in AVM's routers, including the Linux kernel. The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and http://gpl-violations.org consider AVM's action as a broad attack against the principles of free software, and thus against the thousands of individuals and companies developing, improving and distributing free software.
Two new projects can help free software replace Skype
Skype has been in the news a lot lately: Microsoft agreed to buy the company, their network has gone down twice recently, and they're threatening to take unspecified action against developers who try to write free software to make calls on their system.
There are two free software project that stand to make Skype obsolete: GNU Free Call and WebRTC and they both could benefit from your contribution!
Are you up to the Tor challenge?
In March at the LibrePlanet 2011 conference, we presented the 2010 Award for Projects of Social Benefit to the Tor Project for enabling millions of people to experience freedom of access and expression on the Internet while keeping them in control of their privacy and anonymity.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is encouraging people to run more Tor nodes to help keep up with the increasing number of people who rely on Tor. The FSF is already running a Tor node and we hope some of you reading this will take the challenge too.
Introducing the Compliance Lab's summer intern
We recently welcomed William Theaker at FSF as our summer's licensing intern. In a blog post, he wrote about what brought him to free software, and the goals for his internship.
Holding Nintendo Accountable
Over a period of 10 days, 138 people from twenty different countries made donations of $10 or more in order to send Nintendo's President and COO, Reggie Fils-Aime, a total of 220 bricks.
Earlier this month, our volunteers assembled the cardboard bricks and we wrapped each one of them and attached our signed letter calling for dropping DRM and changing the terms of service.
LibrePlanet featured resource: Free System Distribution Checklist
Every month on LibrePlanet, we highlight one resource that is interesting and useful -- often one that could use your help.
This month, we are featuring the Free System Distribution Checklist. This page provides a checklist of practical steps you can take to see whether or not a particular distribution complies with the "Free System Distribution Guidelines".
- Free System Distribution Checklist: http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Free_System_Distribution_Checklist
- Free System Distribution Guidelines: http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
Do you have a suggestion for next month's featured resource? Let us know at campaigns@fsf.org.
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry
New GNU releases:
autogen-5.12 gprolog-1.4.0 parallel-20110622 binutils-2.21.1 grep-2.9 parted-3.0 ccrtp-2.0.0 help2man-1.40.4 sipwitch-1.0.3 gawk-4.0.0 icecat-5.0 solfege-3.20.0 gcc-4.3.6 libgcrypt-1.5.0 ucommon-5.0.3 gcc-4.6.1 libmicrohttpd-0.9.12 unrtf-0.21.2 glibc-2.14 libzrtpcpp-2.0.0 xorriso-1.1.0.pl01 global-5.9.6 mtools-4.0.17 gnutls-2.12.7 octave-3.4.2
To get announcements of most new GNU releases, subscribe to the info-gnu mailing list: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu. Nearly all GNU software is available from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/, or preferably one of its mirrors (http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html). You can use the url http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ to be automatically redirected to a (hopefully) nearby and up-to-date mirror.
Several GNU packages are looking for maintainers and other assistance. Please see http://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint if you'd like to help. The general page on how to help GNU is at http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html. To submit new packages to GNU, see http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
As always, please feel free to write to me, karl@gnu.org, with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.
Richard Stallman's speaking schedule
2011-07-01 The Danger of Software Users Don't Control Vienna, Austria
2011-07-12 Philosophie et histoire du logiciel libre Strasbourg, France
2011-07-13 Réflexions quant à l'utilisation et la modification du droit d'auteur en faveur de la Liberté Strasbourg, France
Other FSF and free software events
2011-08-25 -- 2011-08-28 GNU Hackers Meeting Paris, France
2011-07-13 John Sullivan at the Greater Hartford GNU/Linux User Group Hartford, CT
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