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CVSROOT: /sources/trans-coord
Module name: trans-coord
Changes by: Yavor Doganov <yavor> 08/06/02 20:11:56
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gnun/licenses : license-list.html
gnun/philosophy: philosophy.html
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@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
<p>
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-Updated: $Date: 2008/01/26 13:56:48 $
+Updated: $Date: 2008/06/02 20:11:55 $
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@@ -118,6 +118,8 @@
<li><a href="/keepingup.ca.html">Català</a> [ca]</li>
<!-- English -->
<li><a href="/keepingup.html">English</a> [en]</li>
+<!-- Dutch -->
+<li><a href="/keepingup.nl.html">Nederlands</a> [nl]</li>
<!-- Polish -->
<li><a href="/keepingup.pl.html">Polski</a> [pl]</li>
<!-- Russian -->
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+++ licenses/license-list.html 2 Jun 2008 20:11:55 -0000 1.8
@@ -6,6 +6,29 @@
<h2>Various Licenses and Comments about Them</h2>
+<h3><a id="TableOfContents">Table of Contents</a></h3>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="#Introduction">Introduction</a>
+ <li><a href="#SoftwareLicenses">Software Licenses</a>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#GPLCompatibleLicenses">GPL-Compatible Free Software
Licenses</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#GPLIncompatibleLicenses">GPL-Incompatible Free Software
Licenses</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#NonFreeSoftwareLicense">Non-Free Software Licenses</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="#DocumentationLicenses">Licenses For Documentation</a>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#FreeDocumentationLicenses">Free Documentation
Licenses</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#NonFreeDocumentationLicenses">Non-Free Documentation
Licenses</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="#OtherLicenses">Licenses for Works of Practical Use Besides
+ Software and Documentation</a></li>
+ <ul><li><a href="#Fonts">Licenses for Fonts</a></li></ul>
+ <li><a href="#OpinionLicenses">Licenses for Works of Opinion and
Judgment</a></li>
+</ul>
+
<h2><a id="Introduction">Introduction</a></h2>
<p>We classify a license according to certain key questions:</p>
@@ -129,7 +152,7 @@
provide many programmers with all the permission they need to make the
programs they want. See section 13 of both licenses for details.</p> </dd>
-<dt><a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0"; name="apache2">
+<dt><a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0"; id="apache2">
Apache License, Version 2.0</a></dt>
<dd>
<p>This is a free software license, compatible with version 3 of the GPL.</p>
@@ -711,7 +734,7 @@
<p>The Open Software License is a free software license. It is
incompatible with the GNU GPL in several ways.</p>
-<p><a name="OSLRant"></a>Recent versions of the Open Software License have
+<p><a id="OSLRant"></a>Recent versions of the Open Software License have
a term which requires distributors to try to obtain explicit assent to
the license. This means that distributing OSL software on ordinary FTP
sites, sending patches to ordinary mailing lists, or storing the
@@ -1120,7 +1143,7 @@
allow commercial distribution of a modified version.</p></dd>
-<dt><a href="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/"; name="SGIFreeB">
+<dt><a href="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/"; id="SGIFreeB">
SGI Free Software License B, version 1.1</a></dt>
<dd>
<p>The SGI Free Software License B, although its name says
@@ -1318,8 +1341,8 @@
<hr />
-<h3><a id="OtherLicenses">Licenses for Works of Practical Use Besides
- Software and Documentation</a></h3>
+<h2><a id="OtherLicenses">Licenses for Works of Practical Use Besides
+ Software and Documentation</a></h2>
<dl>
@@ -1391,10 +1414,9 @@
documentation, since it is incompatible with the GNU GPL and with the
GNU FDL.</p></dd>
-
</dl>
-<h3><a name="Fonts">Licenses for Fonts</a></h3>
+<h3><a id="Fonts">Licenses for Fonts</a></h3>
<p>The licenses below apply to an instantation of a design in a computer
file, not the artistic design. As far as we know, an implementation of
@@ -1436,7 +1458,9 @@
</dl>
-<h3><a id="OpinionLicenses">Licenses for Works of Opinion and Judgment</a></h3>
+<hr />
+
+<h2><a id="OpinionLicenses">Licenses for Works of Opinion and Judgment</a></h2>
<p>Works that express someone's opinion—memoirs, editorials, and
so on—serve a fundamentally different purpose than works for
@@ -1444,10 +1468,10 @@
expect them to provide recipients with a different set of permissions:
the permission to copy and distribute the work verbatim, for both
commercial and noncommercial purposes.
-<a href="/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.html" title="Richard
-Stallman discusses what rights the public should have for works of
-opinion">Richard Stallman discusses this</a> frequently in his
-speeches.</p>
+<a href="/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.html#opinions"
+title="Richard Stallman discusses what rights the public should have
+for works of opinion">Richard Stallman discusses this</a> frequently
+in his speeches.</p>
<p>Because so many licenses meet these criteria, we cannot list them
all. If you are looking for one to use yourself, however, there are
@@ -1475,7 +1499,11 @@
</dl>
<hr />
-<h4><a href="/licenses/licenses.html">More about licenses</a></h4>
+
+<strong><a href="/licenses/licenses.html">More about licenses.</a></strong>
+
+<hr />
+
</div>
<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
@@ -1498,7 +1526,7 @@
</p>
<p>
- Copyright © 1999 Richard M. Stallman
+ Copyright © 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
<br />
Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is
permitted in any medium without royalty provided this notice is
@@ -1508,7 +1536,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
- $Date: 2008/05/28 20:11:48 $
+ $Date: 2008/06/02 20:11:55 $
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</p>
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@@ -24,920 +24,26 @@
that Work for Freedom in
Computer Development and Electronic Communications</a>.</p>
-
-<h3>About Free Software</h3>
-<p>
-Free software is a matter of freedom: people should be free to use
+<p>Free software is a matter of freedom: people should be free to use
software in all the ways that are socially useful. Software differs
from material objects—such as chairs, sandwiches, and
gasoline—in that it can be copied and changed much more easily.
These possibilities make software as useful as it is; we believe
software users should be able to make use of them.</p>
-<!-- I don't think it's good idea to link specific translation -->
-<!-- (e.g. foo.fr.html) from here. It would be better to link them -->
-<!-- from philosophy.fr.html and the original documents. -mhatta -->
-
-<ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">What is Free Software?</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/why-free.html">Why
- Software Should Not Have Owners</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/shouldbefree.html">Why
- Software Should Be Free</a> (This is an older and longer
- essay about the same topic as the previous one)</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/free-doc.html">Why Free Software Needs
- Free Documentation</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/selling.html">Selling Free Software</a> is OK!</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/categories.html">Categories of Free and
- Non-Free Software</a></li>
- <li><a href="/software/reliability.html">Free Software is More
Reliable!</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">Why
- “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/linux-gnu-freedom.html">Linux, GNU, and
- Freedom</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/gnutella.html"
- id="Gnutella">Regarding Gnutella</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/schools.html">Why Schools Should Use
- Exclusively Free Software</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/my_doom.html">MyDoom and You</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/15-years-of-free-software.html">15 Years of Free
Software</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/free-software-intro.html">Free Software
movement</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/your-freedom-needs-free-software.html">Your Freedom
Needs Free Software</a></li>
- <li><a
href="/philosophy/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html">Guidelines for Free
System Distributions</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-
-<h3 id="aboutgnu">About the GNU Project</h3>
-
-<ul>
- <li><a href="/gnu/initial-announcement.html">Initial announcement of
- the GNU Project</a></li>
- <li><a href="/gnu/manifesto.html">The GNU Manifesto</a></li>
- <li><a href="/gnu/gnu-history.html">Brief history of the GNU Project</a></li>
- <li><a href="/gnu/thegnuproject.html">The GNU Project</a>,
- a longer and more complete description of the project and its
- history.</li>
- <li><a href="/fsf/fsf.html">What is the Free Software Foundation?</a></li>
- <li><a href="/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html">Why GNU/Linux?</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-
-<h3 id="LicensingFreeSoftware">Licensing Free Software</h3>
-
<ul>
- <li><a href="/licenses/licenses.html">General information on licensing and
copyleft</a></li>
- <li><a href="/licenses/license-list.html">A list of specific free software
licenses</a></li>
- <li><a href="/licenses/gpl-faq.html">Frequently Asked Questions About the
GNU Licenses</a></li>
- <li><a href="/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html">Why You Shouldn't Use the Lesser
GPL for Your Next Library</a></li>
- <li><a href="/copyleft/copyleft.html">Copyleft</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/why-copyleft.html">Why Copyleft?</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/university.html">Releasing Free Software if You
Work at a University</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/pragmatic.html">Copyleft: Pragmatic
Idealism</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/20050211.html";>Censorship
envy and licensing</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/x.html">The X Window System Trap</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/apsl.html">The Problems of the Apple
License</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/bsd.html">The BSD License Problem</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/netscape-npl.html">The Netscape Public License Has
Serious Problems</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/udi.html">The Free Software Movement and
UDI</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/microsoft.html">Is Microsoft the Great
Satan?</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/microsoft-antitrust.html">The Microsoft Antitrust
Trial and Free Software</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/microsoft-verdict.html">On the Microsoft
Verdict</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/microsoft-new-monopoly.html">Microsoft's New
Monopoly</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/plan-nine.html" id="PlanNineLicense">The Problems
of the Plan 9 License</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/motif.html" id="MotifLicense">The New Motif
License</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/using-gfdl.html" id="UsingGFDL">Using the GNU
FDL</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/gpl-american-way.html" id="GPLAmericanWay">The GNU
GPL and the American Way</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/gpl-american-dream.html" id="GPLAmericanDream">The
GNU GPL and the American Dream</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/enforcing-gpl.html" id="EnforcingGPL">Enforcing the
GNU GPL</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/freedom-or-power.html" id="FreedomOrPower">Freedom
or Power?</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html" id="NoWordAttachments">We
Can Put an End to Word Attachments</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/java-trap.html" id="JavaTrap">Free But
- Shackled - The Java Trap</a> (Although as of December 2006 Sun is in the
middle of
- <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-welcomes-gpl-java.html";>rereleasing its
Java platform
- under GNU GPL</a>, the issue described in this article still remains
important)</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.html"
id="FightingSoftwarePatents">Fighting Software Patents - Singly and
Together</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/software-literary-patents.html"
id="SoftwareLiteraryPatents">
- Software Patents and Literary Patents</a>, by Richard M. Stallman,
- speaking of patenting artistic techniques, US patent (6,935,954)
- covers making game characters start to hallucinate when (according to
- the game) they are being driven insane. That is getting pretty close
- to the hypothetical examples cited in this article.
- </li>
+ <li><a href="about-free-software.html">About free software</a></li>
+ <li><a href="about-the-gnu-operating-system.html">About the GNU Operating
System</a></li>
+<li><a href="licensing-free-software.html">Licensing free software</a></li>
+<li><a href="laws-and-issues.html">Laws and issues</a></li>
+<li><a href="terminology-and-definitions.html">Terminology and
definitions</a></li>
+<li><a href="upholding-software-freedom.html">Upholding software
freedom</a></li>
+<li><a href="speeches-and-interview.html">Speeches and interviews</a></li>
+<li><a href="third-party-ideas.html">Third party ideas</a></li>
+<li><a href="misc-philosophy.html">Miscellaneous philosophy</a></li>
</ul>
-<h3 id="Laws">Laws and Issues</h3>
-
-<ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/computing-progress.html">Computing
- “progress”: good and bad</a>, by Richard M. Stallman.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/why-audio-format-matters.html">Why Audio Format
matters</a> by Karl Fogel</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/no-ip-ethos.html">
- Don't Let “Intellectual Property” Twist Your Ethos</a>,
- by Richard M. Stallman.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/sun-in-night-time.html">The Curious Incident of Sun
in the Night-Time</a>,
- by Richard M. Stallman.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/opposing-drm.html">Opposing Digital Rights
Mismanagement</a>,
- by Dr. Richard M. Stallman, answers a few common questions about DRM.</li>
-
- <li><a href="http://counterpunch.org/baker08192004.html";>
- Why We Need “Free Software” Voting Machines</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/wsis.html">World Summit on the Information
- Society</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/w3c-patent.html">FSF's Position on W3
- Consortium “Royalty-Free” Patent Policy</a> rewritten</li>
-
- <li>Comments from Richard Stallman on <a href="/philosophy/ipjustice.html">
- the ICLC's rejection of the IP Enforcement Directive</a></li>
-
- <li>Richard Stallman has written <a href="/philosophy/boldrin-levine.html">
- a review of Boldrin and Levine's “The case against
- intellectual property.”</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/sco/sco-gnu-linux.html">SCO, GNU, and Linux</a>,
- by Richard Stallman, discusses how SCO's lawsuit against IBM pertains to
the
- work of the GNU project. Please see the <a
href="/philosophy/sco/sco.html">
- FSF SCO Response Page</a> for more details on this subject.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/guardian-article.html">That's fighting talk</a>
- a slightly modified version of the article, originally published in
- <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk";>The Guardian</a> of London by
- <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard Stallman</a> and Nick
Hill.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/ebooks.html">Ebooks: Freedom Or Copyright</a>
- a slightly modified version of the article, originally published in
- Technology Review in 2000, by <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>
- Richard Stallman</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/lessig-fsfs-intro.html">The introduction by
- Lawrence Lessig</a> to <a href="/doc/book13.html"><i>Free Software, Free
- Society: The Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman</i></a> is available
- for reading.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html">Misinterpreting
- Copyright</a> is another essay by <a
href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard
- Stallman</a> about the flaws in popular defenses of copyright law.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/can-you-trust.html">Can you trust your
- computer?</a>, a work by <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard
- Stallman</a> about the so-called “trusted computing”
- initiatives.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/eldred-amicus.html">FSF's Brief Amicus Curiae
- in the Eldred v. Ashcroft Supreme Court case</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/push-copyright-aside.html">Science must
- “push copyright aside”</a>, another work
- of <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard Stallman</a> that
- appeared in the
- <a
href="http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/stallman.html";>
- Nature Webdebates</a> in 2001, explains how copyright is
- impeding progress in scientific research.
- <ul>
- <li>You may also be interested in
- <a href="http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org";>The Public Library of
- Science</a>, which is dedicated to making scientific research
freely
- available to all on the Internet.</li>
- <li>A
- <a
href="http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v425/n6960/full/425752b_fs.html";>related
- article</a> describes how the principal scientific organizations
- of Germany have issued a joint declaration in support of the
- provision of free scientific information over the Internet.</li>
- </ul></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/ms-doj-tunney.html">FSF's Statement in Response
- to Proposed Revised Final Judgment in Microsoft vs. United States,
- submitted to the US Department of Justice under the Tunney Act</a>.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/new-monopoly.html">U.S. Congress Threatens to
- Establish a New Kind of Monopoly</a>, an attempt of the Congress to
- create a private monopoly over repeating publicly known
- information.</li>
-
- <li>In <a
href="http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/Felten_v_RIAA/20010606_eff_felten_pr.html";>Felten
- v. RIAA</a>, scientists are asking a court to rule that the Digital
- Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) does not prohibit them from publishing
- their research.</li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/MPAA_DVD_cases/";>EFF
- “Intellectual Property: MPAA (Motion Picture
- Association of America) DVD Cases” Archive</a></li>
-
- <!-- This link is broken
- <li><a href="http://www.humaninfo.org/copyrigh.htm";>Examples of
Excellent Copyright Policies</a></li>
- -->
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/reevaluating-copyright.html">Reevaluating
- Copyright: The Public must prevail</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/right-to-read.html">The Right to Read: A Dystopian
- Short Story</a> by
- <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a></li>
-
- <li><a
href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvashcroft/cyber/complaint_orig.html";>Eldred
- v. Reno</a> is about a lawsuit to overturn a law that extends
- copyright by 20 extra years.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/wassenaar.html">Encryption
- software volunteers needed in countries without export control</a>.</li>
-
- <li>How to Protect the <a href="/philosophy/protecting.html">Right to Write
- Software</a> (independent of whether it's free or not)</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/dat.html">The Right Way to Tax DAT</a></li>
-
- <li>How to Protect the
- <a href="/philosophy/basic-freedoms.html">Freedoms
- of Speech, Press, and Association</a>
- on the Internet</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/censoring-emacs.html">Censoring My
- Software</a>, by <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard
- Stallman</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/privacyaction.html">Protect Postal
- Privacy</a>, a campaign to resist the proposed rule by the United
- States Postal Service to collect private information from
- customers.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/patent-reform-is-not-enough.html">Patent Reform
- Is Not Enough</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/savingeurope.html">Saving Europe from
- Software Patents</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/amazon.html">Boycott Amazon!</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/ucita.html">Why We Must Fight UCITA</a></li>
-
- <li><a
href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/00/11/27/001127opfoster.xml";>
- A world with UCITA may allow fine print to outweigh the right thing</a>
- by Ed Foster <a
href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/freedom-or-copyright.html">Freedom-Or
- Copyright?</a> by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard
Stallman</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/freedom-or-copyright-old.html">Freedom-Or
- Copyright?</a>, an older version of the essay.</li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.researchoninnovation.org/patent.pdf";
- id="SequentialIPandI">Sequential
- Innovation, Patents, and Imitation</a> is a paper that presents a
- mathematical model showing how patents can
- impede progress in fields like software.</li>
-
- <li><a href="copyright-versus-community.html" id="StallmanTalkLSM">
- Copyright versus community in the age of computer networks</a>:
- is a verbatim transcript of a talk by <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>
- Richard Stallman</a> at the Logiciel Libre Conference in July 2000.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/hague.html">Harm from the Hague</a>.</li>
-
- <li><a
href="http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/resources/feedback/OIIFB_GPL2_20040903.pdf";>
- An English translation</a> of the famous decision of the District Court
of Munich (Germany) regarding the
- enforceability and validity of the GPL. The translation was done by the
Oxford Internet Institute.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/not-ipr.html">Did You Say “Intellectual
Property”?
- It's a Seductive Mirage</a>. An essay on the true meaning of
- the phrase “Intellectual Property”, by Richard M.
Stallman</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/second-sight.html">Free Software and
- (e-)Government</a> - an article from The Guardian, by Richard
- Stallman (originally published under the title “Second
Sight”).</li>
-
- <li><a
- href="http://www.virtueel.com/upd/ins_opinions.rxml?cust=212&id=967";>
- Free Software and Sustainable Development</a> - A short article by
- Richard Stallman regarding the use of proprietary software in
- cultural development.</li>
-
- <li><a
href="http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,1540984,00.html";>
- Soft sell</a>. An article by Richard M. Stallman published in
- <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk";>The Guardian</a>.</li>
-
- <li><a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2005/jun/23/onlinesupplement.insideit";>
- Patent absurdity</a>, an article by Richard M. Stallman published in
- <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk";>The Guardian</a>.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/trivial-patent.html">The Anatomy of a Trivial
Patent</a>,
- by Richard M. Stallman.</li>
-</ul>
-
-
-<h3 id="terminology">Terminology and Definitions</h3>
-
-<ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html">Confusing Words</a>
- which You Might Want to Avoid</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">Why
- “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html">“Open
- Source Software” or “Free Software”?</a>
- (This is an older essay about the same topic as the previous one.)</li>
- <li>Richard Stallman wrote <a href="/philosophy/drdobbs-letter.html">letter
to the editor</a> of
- Dr. Dobb's Journal in June which further explains the distinction
- between the Free Software and Open Source movements.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/categories.html">Categories of Free and
- Non-Free Software</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-
-<h3 id="upholding">Upholding Software Freedom</h3>
-
-<ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/use-free-software.html">The Free Software Community
After 20 Years</a>,
- With great but incomplete success, what now?</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/mcvoy.html">Thank You, Larry McVoy</a> by Richard
M. Stallman</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/social-inertia.html">Overcoming Social
- Inertia</a>, by Richard M. Stallman</li>
-</ul>
-
-
-
-<h3>GIFs</h3>
-
-<ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/gif.html">Why there are no GIF files on GNU web
pages</a>, While this
- story is a historical illustration of the danger of software patents,
these particular
- patents are now no longer a concern. For details of our website <a
href="/server/fsf-html-style-sheet.html#UseofGraphics">policies regarding
GIFs</a>, see our web <a href="/server/standards/">web guidelines</a>.</li>
-</ul>
-
-
-<h3>Motivation</h3>
-<ul>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/motivation.html">Studies Find Reward Often No
Motivator</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-
-<h3 id="speeches">Speeches and Interviews (in reverse chronological
-order)</h3>
-
-<ul>
- <li><a
- href="http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/copy_vs_comm.ogg";>Video
- recording of Copyright vs. Community speech</a> with <a
- href="http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/copy_vs_comm.txt";>brief
- text description</a>, given by Richard Stallman on July 5, 2007
- in Missassauga, Ontario, Canada.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/rms-kol.html">Transcript of a speech</a> given by
<a href="http://www.stallman.org";>
- Richard Stallman</a> in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) on August, 2006.</li>
-
- <li><a href="http://questionsplease.org/Questions_please_1.ogg";>Jonathan
- Roberts interviews Richard Stallman and others</a> on free software.</li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.billxu.com/friend/rms/zeuux.rms.anti.drm.html";>Bill
- Xu interviews Richard Stallman on DRM</a>. You can also read
- it <a href="http://www.billxu.com/friend/rms/zeuux.rms.anti.drm.cn.html";>in
- Chinese</a>.</li>
-
- <li>Eben Moglen, <a href="http://punkcast.com/964/";>“Free
- Software and Free Media”</a>, at the Jefferson Market Library
- in New York, New York, May 3, 2006 for the Metropolitan NY Chapter
- of the Internet Society</li>
-
- <li><a
href="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=13&ItemID=9350";>
- Richard Stallman interviewed</a> by Justin Podur on “Free
- Software as a Social Movement”, 01 December 2005</li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6222";>Richard Stallman
interviewed</a>
- by Federico Biancuzzi for ONLamp.com, 22 September 2005</li>
-
- <li><a href="http://wm-eddie.info/rms.html";>Presentation of the goals
- and philosophy of the GNU operating system</a> by
- <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard Stallman</a> in
- University of Pittsburgh, April 7th 2005 </li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard Stallman</a>'s
- <a
href="http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=353";>
- interview</a> with Timothy R. Butler, 31 March 2005.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/nit-india.html">Transcript of a speech</a> given by
- <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard M. Stallman</a> at
- National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India, 17 February 2004.</li>
-
-<li><a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard Stallman</a>'s <a
href="http://www.neteconomie.com/perl/navig.pl/neteconomie/infos/impression/20041208104640";>interview
with NetEconomie.com</a> (In French) 10 December 2004</li>
-
- <li><a href="patent-practice-panel.html">Transcript of a panel
- presentation</a>, “New developments in patent practice:
- assessing the risks and cost of portfolio licensing and
- hold-ups”, given by Daniel B. Ravicher as the executive
- director of the Public Patent Foundation on Wednesday, November
- 10, 2004, at a conference organized by the Foundation for a Free
- Information Infrastructure (FFII) in Brussels, Belgium</li>
-
-<li><a href="http://www.ariel.com.au/essays/rms-unsw-2004-10-14.html";>Synopsis
of a speech</a> given by <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard M.
Stallman</a> about software patents on 14 October 2004.</li>
-
-<li><a href="http://laurel.datsi.fi.upm.es/~fsanchez/rms/"; >
- Web page with interviews/audio/video from speeches in Madrid (May 2004)</a>
- given by <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard M. Stallman</a> (site
is in Spanish)
- </li>
-
-<li><a href="/philosophy/moglen-harvard-speech-2004.html" >
- Transcript of a speech</a> given by <a
href="http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/"; >Prof. Eben Moglen</a>
- at Harvard on 23 February, 2004.</li>
-
-<li><a href="/philosophy/wsis-2003.html">Transcript of a speech</a> given by
- <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard M. Stallman</a> at WSIS, 16 July
2003.</li>
-
-<li><a href="/philosophy/rieti.html">Transcript of a speech</a> given by
- <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard M. Stallman</a>, 21 April
2003.</li>
-
-<li><a href="/philosophy/audio/audio.html#RUTGERS2003">Audio recording of a
- speech, <cite>Software Freedom and the GNU Generation</cite>, given by
- Bradley M. Kuhn</a> 22 April 2003.</li>
-
-<li><a href="/philosophy/audio/audio.html#CAMB2002">Audio recording of a
- speech, <cite>Software Patents:Obstacles to software development</cite>,
given by
- Richard M. Stallman at the University of Cambridge, England</a> 25th March
2002. A <a
- href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/stallman-patents.html";>transcript of
the
- speech</a> is also available.</li>
-
-<li><a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard Stallman</a> interview in 2002,
talking about <a href="/philosophy/rms-hack.html">the hacker community and
ethics
-</a>, this interview is also <a
href="http://www.uta.fi/~fiteva/rms_int_fi.html";>available in Finnish</a>.</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard Stallman</a>'s <a
href="http://www.mytech.it/mytech/internet/art006010045404.jsp";>
- interview, <cite>Perché l'open source non è tutto</cite>, in
italian,</a> to the Mytech website, 22 April 2003. (The title reads,
<cite>Because Open Source is not all</cite>.)</li>
-
-<li><a href="/philosophy/audio/audio.html#QMUL2002">Audio recording of a
- speech, <cite>Copyright vs Community in the age of computer
Networks</cite>, given by
- Richard M. Stallman at Queen Mary University of London, England</a> 12th
Feb 2002.</li>
-
-<li><a
href="http://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/francais/rms-speech-paris-30-jan-2002.ogg";>Audio
- recording in French of a speech, <cite>l'éthique du
- système GNU/Linux et de la communauté des logiciels
- libres, les tâches à accomplir et les risques à
- envisager</cite>, given by Richard M. Stallman at CNIT à la
- Défense, Paris, France.</a> 27th Jan 2002. (A number of other
- speeches in several languages are also available on <a
- href="http://audio-video.gnu.org/";>audio-video.gnu.org</a>.</li>
-
-<li><a href="http://www.april.org/actions/rms/20011120/stream.html";>Audio
recordings and a partial transcript</a> of the conference given by <a
href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard M. Stallman</a> to the French National
Assembly on 20th November 2001.</li>
-
-<li><a href="/philosophy/stallman-mec-india.html">Transcript of the speech,
<cite>The Danger of Software Patents</cite></a> by <a
href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard M. Stallman</a> given at Government
Model Engineering College, India on 24th July 2001. Also, the MEC has posted
an <a href="http://www.mec.ac.in/events/rms/";>audio recording and
transcript</a> at their website.</li>
-
-<li><a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard Stallman</a>'s
- <a href="/philosophy/luispo-rms-interview.html">interview</a> with
Louis
- Suarez-Potts in May of 2001.</li>
-
-<li><a href="/philosophy/audio/audio.html#NYU2001">Audio recording of a
- speech, <cite>Free Software: Freedom and Cooperation</cite>, given by
- Richard M. Stallman at New York University</a>. A <a
- href="/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.html">transcript of the
- speech</a> is also available.</li>
-
-<li><a href="/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.html">Transcript of
- a speech, <cite>Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer
- Networks</cite>, given by Richard M. Stallman at MIT</a>.</li>
-
-<li><a href="/philosophy/audio/audio.html#MIT2001">Audio
- recording of a speech, <cite>Copyright and Globalization in the
- Age of Computer Networks</cite>, given by Richard M. Stallman at
MIT</a>.</li>
-
-<li><a href="/philosophy/audio/audio.html#ArsDigita2001">Audio
- recording of a speech, <cite>The Free Software Movement and the
- GNU/Linux Operating System</cite>, given by Richard M. Stallman at
- ArsDigita University</a>.</li>
-
-<li><a href="/philosophy/audio/audio.html#SLOV2000">Audio
- recording of a speech, <cite>The Free Software Movement and the
- GNU/Linux Operating System</cite>, given by Richard M. Stallman at
- Auditorium Smelt, Ljubljana, Slovenia</a>.</li>
-
-<li><a href="/philosophy/audio/audio.html#LinuxTag2000">Audio
- recording of a speech, <cite>The Free Software Movement and the
- GNU/Linux Operating System</cite>, given by Richard M. Stallman at
- LinuxTag 2000</a>.</li>
-
-<li><a href="/philosophy/audio/audio.html#CGLUG2000">Audio
- recording of a speech, <cite>The Free Software Movement and the
- GNU/Linux Operating System</cite>, given by Richard M. Stallman at
- the University of Cincinnati</a>.</li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.linux-mag.com/1999-07/stallman_01.html";>Interview
- from Linux Magazine</a> in July 1999
- with <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a></li>
-<!-- <li><a href="http://blur.cx/";>The Road to GNU</a></li> -->
-
-<!-- These links are broken, and need to be replaced.
- <li><a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a>'s
- <a
href="http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-03/lw-03-rms.html?4-4";>interview</a>
- with LinuxWorld about the problems with software patents.</li>
-
- <li><a
href="http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworldtoday/lwt-indepth7.html";>LinuxWorld
Interview</a>
- with
- <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a></li>
--->
-
- <li><a
href="http://www.april.org/actions/rms/10111998/texte.html";>Transcription (in
French)</a> of a
- speech that
- <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a>
- gave in 1998 at the University of
- Paris.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/greve-clown.en.html">English translation of a
- speech</a>
- that Georg Greve
- gave in 1998 at the GNU/Linux Cluster “CLOWN” in Germany
- (<a href="/philosophy/greve-clown.de.html">German original</a>)</li>
- <li><a href="/gnu/byte-interview.html">BYTE Interview</a>
- in July 1986 with
- <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a></li>
- <li>A
- <a href="/philosophy/stallman-kth.html">speech</a>
- that
- <a href="http://www.stallman.org/";>Richard Stallman</a>
- gave in 1986 at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden</li>
-
-<li>An <a href="http://audio-video.gnu.org/audio/francais";>index of French
recordings at audio-video.gnu.org</a> is also available.</li>
-</ul>
-
-
-<h3 id="ThirdPartyIdeas">Third Party Ideas</h3>
-<p>
-These articles give other people's philosophical
-opinions in support of free software, or related issues, and don't
-speak for the GNU project — but we more or less agree with them.</p>
-
-<p>
-Many of the
-<a href="/links/links.html#FreedomOrganizations">Organizations that Work
-for Freedom in Computer Development and Electronic Communications</a>
-also have philosophical opinions in support of free software, or
-related issues.</p>
-
-<ul>
- <li><a
- href="http://www.cic.unb.br/docentes/pedro/trabs/stockholm.html";>The
- Digital Stockholm Syndrome</a>: reflections over some psychological
- responses to market forces, by Pedro Rezende, University of Brasilia.</li>
-
- <li><a href="http://questioncopyright.org";>QuestionCopyright.org</a>
- is a web site about the history and effects of copyright, dedicated
- to raise awareness of the harmful consequences of today's copyright
- system.</li>
- <li>
- <a
href="http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196601781";>
- How Vista Lets Microsoft Lock Users In</a> by Cory Doctorow.
- <b>Note:</b> We think it is a mistake to use the enemy's
favorable-sounding propaganda terms such as
- “trusted computing” to describe a malicious plan.
- </li>
- <li>
- <a href="http://www.movingtofreedom.org/";>movingtofreedom.org</a>,
- Scott Carpenter's blog with many freedom-related articles.
- </li>
- <li>
- <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/194701/";>A couple of lessons on the
hazards of proprietary software</a>.
- </li>
- <li>
- <a
href="http://southflorida.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2006/07/03/story8.html";>
- Multiple doctors cut off from records by Dr. Notes
- </a>,
- an example of how proprietary software gives the developers unjust power
over the users.
- </li>
- <li>Jimmy Wales explains why
- <a
href="http://blog.jimmywales.com/index.php/archives/2004/10/21/free-knowledge-requires-free-software-and-free-file-formats/";>
- Free Knowledge requires Free Software and Free File Formats</a> in this
paper. He also exposes why
- <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org";>Wikipedia</a> needs to be free
software.</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.juergen-ernst.de/info_swpat_en.html";>Software
patents under the
- magnifying glass</a>. In this article the author uses arguments
- based on lambda calculus to show why software cannot be patented.</li>
- <li><a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/204641/";>Free gadgets need free
- software</a>, an editorial reporting a firmware “upgrade”
that
- removes the ability to record radio broadcasts.</li>
- <li>Lakhani and Wolf's <a
href="http://freesoftware.mit.edu/papers/lakhaniwolf.pdf";>paper on the
motivation of free software developers</a> says that a considerable fraction
are motivated by the view that software should be free. This was despite the
fact that they surveyed the developers on SourceForge, a site that does not
support the view that this is an ethical issue.</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11663";>Groklaw
- sends a Dear Darl letter</a>; a group from the free software and
- open source community has put together a response to SCO CEO Darl
- McBride's Open Letter to the Open Source Community.</li>
- <li><a
href="http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/editorials/4788/1,";>Hardware
Central</a>.
- We disagree with one aspect of this article's conclusion:
- It's not legitimate for Microsoft to help Disney and the RIAA
- impose Digital Restrictions Management on you, any more than
- it is legitimate for Disney and the RIAA to try it.
- The full power of computing should be available to you,
- not just to the owners of information.</li>
- <li><a href="http://portal.softwarelivre.org/news/1185";>The Brazilian
Federal Goverment sponsored a national Free Software Movement</a> in Brazil.
This article is in Brazilian Porteguese.</li>
-
-<li>The SCO Sue Me Petition has overwhelmed its inceptor
-and the petition is no longer taking votes. The author
-of the petition, John Everitt, was expecting only several
-responses but instead he had thousands of participants. <a
-href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6913";>In the
-last available public communication about the petition</a>, he
-urged people to help <a href="http://www.fsf.org";>FSF</a> in any
-way possible.</li>
-
- <li><a
href="http://proposicion.org.ar/doc/gob/Conde-281102/index.html.en";>Senator
Alberto Conde's answer</a> to CESSI regarding Bill E-135/02-03 which proposes
use of Free Software in the public sector for the province of Buenos Aires. <a
href="http://proposicion.org.ar/proyecto/leyes/E-135.02-03/";>The bill</a> has
been submitted by Senator Alberto Conde himself.</li>
- <li> Some economists argue that copyright and patents
- <a href="http://www.reason.com/0303/fe.dc.creation.shtml";> fail to
-promote the progress</a> that they supposedly exist to promote.
-<p>
-This article takes a narrowly economic view of its subject, measuring
-social alternatives only by what goods are available for what price,
-assuming that you the citizen are a mere consumer and place no value
-on your freedom in itself. It also uses the misleading term
-<a
href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#IntellectualProperty">“intellectual
-property”</a>, which is misleading because it lumps copyrights and
-patents together. The article also lumps them together, which it can
-get away with because it ignores the (different) social issues that
-copyrights and patents raise.
-</p><p>
-Despite those flaws, it is significant. If one can judge copyright to
-be harmful even on narrow economic terms, disregarding the ethical
-wrong of stopping people from sharing, it can only be more harmful
-once we consider the ethics as well.
-</p></li>
-
- <li>Two articles by Duncan Campbell describe how NSA backdoors were
- hidden in proprietary software programs:
- <a href="http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/2898/1.html";>“Only
NSA can
- listen, so that's OK”</a> and <a
- href="http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/5263/1.html";>“How NSA
- access was built into Windows”</a>. Both are clear demonstrations of
how
- users of proprietary software can often be unaware of what they are
- actually running.</li>
-
- <li><a
href="http://www.culturaleconomics.atfreeweb.com/cpu.htm";>“Copyright
- C.P.U.”</a> by Harry Hillman Chartrand is a good summary of the
history of
- copyright.</li>
-
- <li>Malla Pollack's
- <a
href="http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/eldredvashcroft/progress.html";>“What
- is Congress Supposed to Promote?”</a> explains how the United States'
- government's recent tendencies to provide maximum control to copyright
- holders defies the justification for establishment of copyright set out
- in the constitution.</li>
-
- <li>Mikael Pawlo's
- <a
href="http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/05/08/153204.shtml?tid=19";>“Software
- lemon law with bitter taste”</a> explains how a “lemon
law” for software
- could threaten free software development.</li>
-
- <li>Peruvian Congressman Dr. Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez wrote a
- letter to a Microsoft manager after they wrote expressing concern about
- the country's pending Free Software in Public Administration bill. It
- does an excellent job of allaying concerns about free software often
- raised by Microsoft and others. The English translation of the letter is
- <a href="http://www.gnu.org.pe/resmseng.html";>here</a>.</li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.baen.com/library/palaver4.htm";>British historian
- Thomas Macaulay</a> had ideas about copyright in 1841 which still hold
- true today.</li>
-
- <!-- Removed temporarily until we find out why it's not available, RT #330232
- <li><a href="http://www.openrevolt.org/";>openrevolt.org</a> is a site
- devoted to providing information about the European Copyright
- Directive and similar legislation. It concentrates on the two
- principal problems of the EUCD, which make it easier for copyright
- holders to censor webpages on ISPs and give legal protection to
- copy-protection measures.</li> -->
-
- <li><a href="http://www.chillingeffects.org";>Chilling Effects</a> is
- a collection point for cease and desist notices concerning online
- activity — we invite visitors to enter C&Ds they have
- received or sent. The website collects the C&Ds in a searchable
- database and hyperlinks them to explanations of the legal
- issues.</li>
-
- <li><a
- href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=2302/byt1011380870846/0121_oped.html";>
- Coding is a Crime</a>, by Shannon Cochran, is a commentary on the indictment
- of Jon Johansen on felony charges for helping write DeCSS.</li>
-
- <li><a href="http://james-boyle.com/papers.pdf";>The Second Enclosure Movement
- and the Construction of the Public Domain.</a>, by James Boyle.</li>
-
- <li><a
href="http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/~howard/Papers/pw-public-spaces.html";>Intellectual
- Property: The Attack on Public Space in Cyberspace</a>, by Howard Besser,
- describes how various industries are using their leverage with copyright
- to make fewer locations on the Internet less and less public.</li>
-
- <li><a
href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=267848#PaperDownload";>“Locating
- Copyright Within the First Amendment Skein,”</a>, by Neil W. Netanel,
- argues that the United States court system has been wrong in its dated
- assumption that fair use eliminates the conflict between copyright law
- and the First Amendment.</li>
-
- <li>Richard Stallman co-signed
- <a href="http://www.perens.com/Articles/StandTogether.html";>a joint
- statement responding to comments by Craig Mundie of Microsoft</a>.</li>
-
- <li>In <cite><a href="/philosophy/dmarti-patent.html">Patent Reform
- Now!</a></cite>, Don Marti calls for free software supporters to
- nominate Richard M. Stallman to US Patent and Trademark Office's
- Patent Public Advisory Committee.</li>
-<!--
-"The GNU Project FTP Site: A Digital Collection Supporting a Social
-Movement" is no longer at
-http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~beejoo/gnuproject.html
--->
-
-<!-- brokien line -neel
- <li><a
href="http://oppression.nerdherd.org/Stories/1998/9810/ucla/ucla.html";>UCLA
- discriminates against students using GNU/Linux.
- One part of their justification is supporting the power of
- software owners.</a></li>
--->
- <li><a
href="http://www.brunching.com/features/feature-copyfire.html";>Copyrighting
fire</a></li>
-<!-- broken link -mohit
- <li><a href="http://members.xoom.com/jcenters/HADL.html";>The Hacker
Anti-Defamation League</a></li>
--->
- <li><a
href="http://simson.net/clips/98.Globe.05-07.Read_them_and_weep.htm";>Read
- Them And Weep</a>, by Simson Garfinkel, talks about the
- pending bills that would give information owners sweeping new powers,
- and restrict the activities of users.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/nonsoftware-copyleft.html">Applying Copyleft To
- Non-Software Information</a>, by Michael Stutz.</li>
- <li><a href="free-world.html">Only
- the Free World Can Stand Up to Microsoft</a>, by Tom Hull.</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp.html";>The
- Free Music Philosophy</a>, by Ram Samudrala.</li>
-
- <li>Record companies argue for more copyright power by saying they are
- the support of the musicians.
- <a href="http://www.negativland.com/albini.html";>This article</a> shows
- how record companies really treat musicians.</li>
-
- <!-- the original link was not working, rms suggested i
- make a temporary link -neel
- http://www.musicisum.com/manifesto.shtml
- -->
-
- <li><a href="http://www.maui.net/~zen_gtr/zgzinepg4.html";>The Manifesto:
- Piracy is Your Friend</a>, by Jaron Lanier.
- <br />
- <strong>Note</strong> that the GNU Project recommends
- <a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html">avoiding</a> the term
- <a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Piracy">piracy</a> since
- it implies that sharing copies is somehow illegitimate.</li>
- <li><a
href="http://www.ram.org/ramblings/philosophy/fmp/copying_primer.html";>A
- primer on the ethics of “Intellectual property”</a>, by Ram
Samudrala.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/self-interest.html">Is Self-Interest Sufficient to
- Organize an Free Economy?</a> by Loyd Fueston.</li>
-
- <li><a href="/philosophy/kragen-software.html">People, places, things and
ideas</a> by Kragen Sitaker</li>
- <li><a href="http://libertariannation.org/a/f31l1.html";>The Libertarian Case
- Against Intellectual Property Rights</a> by Roderick T. Long
- <br />
- The Free Software Movement does not endorse Libertarianism, and
- <a href="/philosophy/rms-comment-longs-article.html">we do
- not agree entirely</a> with that article. But it is useful for
- refuting
- one specific argument that is made in favor of proprietary
software.</li>
- <li><a href="http://gsyc.escet.urjc.es/sobre/";>Articles
- in Spanish about free software issues</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/anarchism.html";>Anarchism
- Triumphant:
- Free Software and the Death of Copyright</a></li>
-
-<!--
-
-Imagined Electronic Community: Representations of Virtual Community in
-Contemporary Business Discourse is no longer at
-http://eserver.org/internet/community/community.html
-
--->
-
- <li><a href="http://www.coe.ilstu.edu/rpriegle/wwwdocs/plagiari.htm";>The
Death
- and Rebirth of Plagiarism</a> by Rodney Riegle.
- (We don't entirely agree with this article—we think there is no
- harm in asking people to make some extra effort
- to write “footnotes” to give credit.)</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.savetheweb.org";>Save the Web</a> is a website
- devoted to protecting Internet users rights in Europe.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/economics_frank/frank.html">Does Studying
- Economics Inhibit Cooperation?</a> by Frank, Gilovich, and Regan.</li>
- <li><a href="http://danny.oz.au/freedom/ip/aidfs.html";>Development,
- Ethical Trading, and Free Software</a> by Danny Yee.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/bdk.html">THE BALLAD OF DENNIS KARJALA</a>:
- A political comment in the form of a broadside ballad
- by Timothy R. Phillips.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/ICT-for-prosperity.html">Shaping
- Collaborative ICT Development and Initiatives for Global
- Prosperity</a> by Robert J. Chassell</li>
- <li><a
href="http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/papers/free-software/selection-html/";>
- Competitive Advantages of Free Software</a> by Alexandre Oliva.</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.advogato.org/article/89.html";
- id="PatentgrantundertheGPL">Patent grant under the GPL</a>.</li>
- <li><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/05/biztech/articles/10digital.html";
- id="ConceptofCopyrightFightsMarkoff">The
- Concept of Copyright Fights for Internet Survival</a> by John
- Markoff.</li>
-
- <li><a id="TheRealPurposeOfCopyrightBerry"
-href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA158872.html";>The
- Real Purpose of Copyright</a> by John N. Berry III.</li>
- <li><a id="Copyrightfire" href="/philosophy/fire.html">Copyrighting Fire!
(Humor)</a> by Ian Clarke.</li>
- <li><a
href="http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/professional/infirmation_technology.html";
id="INFOTECH">The Future Brings “Infirmation Technology”</a> by
- Andy Oram.</li>
-<!-- Re: Free Protocols Foundation - it's a maintainance nightmare -->
-<!-- to have full descriptions in more then one place. -len -->
-<!-- RMS requests that this link is put back, 14 Dec 2000, paulv -->
- <li><a href="http://www.freeprotocols.org/";>The Free Protocols
- Foundation</a> is an independent public forum, dedicated to the
- support of patent-free protocols.</li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/software-libre-commercial-viability.html">Software
Libre and Commercial Viability</a> by Alessandro Rubini</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/98il/";>
- Information liberation</a> by Brian Martin. We urge people to avoid
- using the term <a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html">intellectual
- property</a> and to instead speak about copyrights, patents, and/or
- trademarks.</li>
- <li><a href="http://wearcam.org/seatsale/index.htm";>Seat Sale</a>, a
- satire about copyright.</li>
-
- <li>A <a href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/";>gallery</a>
- of examples demonstrating how outrageous and absurd the Digital
- Millenium Copyright Act is.</li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.geocities.com/frankentoons/";>Frankentoons</a>
- by Joel Kahn.</li>
-
- <li>A book review of
- <a
href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/28/0121209&mode=nocomment";>
- <cite>Digital Copyright</cite></a>.</li>
-
- <li><a
- href="http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/350/LWD010523vcontrol4/";>Live and
- let license</a> by Joe Barr.</li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.piecepack.org";>Piecepack</a> is a set of
- boardgame pieces which everyone is free to use in creating or playing
- various types of games.</li>
-
- <li>Eastern Gianozia has put together a <a
-
href="http://www.gianoziaorientale.it/info/foreign_politics.html";>tongue-in-cheek
- look at Software Patents and DRM</a>.</li>
-
- <li><a
href="http://revistes.upc.es/~topopardo/weblog/archives/000036.html";>Here</a>
is an interesting allegory (in Spanish) comparing Free Software to a dining
experience.</li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7813";>Free Software and
Scouting</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="http://fare.tunes.org/articles/patents.html";>Patents Are An
Economic Absurdity</a>: This article adopts as a premise the popular view that
free trade is desirable. We don't always agree - beyond a certain point, free
trade gives businesses too much power, allowing them to intimidate democracy.
But that is a different matter. </li><!-- Description text by RMS -->
-
- <li><a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/kinsella2.html";>In Defense of
Napster and Against the Second Homesteading Rule</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.mises.org/journals/jls/15_2/15_2_1.pdf";>Against
Intellectual Property</a>, Spring 2001, Journal of Libertarian Studies
(PDF)</li>
- <li><a href="http://www.lulu.com/dcparris/";>Penguin in the Pew</a>, Free
Software from a Christian perspective.</li>
- <li><a
href="http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~sdexter/copyleft_ethics.html";>A
Comparative Ethical Assessment of Free Software Licensing Schemes</a> by Samir
Chopra and Scott Dexter</li>
-
- <li>The <a href="http://www.simplemachines.it/simone.html";>SIM.ONE
- hardware project</a> has created free (as in freedom)
- computer design specifications.</li>
-
- <li>Not available online, but as early as 1960 Bernard Galler wrote a
- letter to the editor of the Communications of the ACM (vol.3, no.4,
- pp.A12-A13), saying in part (mentioning price, but clearly implying
- freedom):
- <blockquote>
- <p>
- … it is clear that what is being
- charged for is the development of the program, and
- while I am particularly unhappy that it comes from a
- university, I believe it is damaging to the whole
- profession. There isn't a 704 installation that hasn't
- directly benefited from the free exchange of programs
- made possible by the distribution facilities of SHARE.
- If we start to sell our programs, this will set very
- undesirable precedents.
- </p>
- </blockquote>
- (Thanks to Nelson Beebe for the reference.)</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-
-<h3>Miscellaneous</h3>
-
-<ul>
-<li><a href="/fun/humor.html#Philosophy">Philosophy Humor</a>.
-We don't have to be serious <i>all</i> the time.</li>
-</ul>
-
-
-<h3>Translations of These Documents</h3>
-
-<ul>
- <li><a href="http://kldp.org/gnu/philosophisch-dokuments.html";>Unofficial
- Korean translations</a> of many of these documents</li>
-<!-- Seems this link is dead -->
-<!-- <LI><a
href="http://www.whlug.clinux.org/gnu/philosophy/">Unofficial -->
-<!-- Chinese translations</a> of many of these documents -->
- <li><a href="/gnu/manifesto.html#translations">Translations of the
- GNU Manifesto</a></li>
- <li><a href="/philosophy/fs-translations.html">Translations
- of the term “free software”</a></li>
- <li><a href="/copyleft/copyleft.html#translations">Translations of the
- GNU GPL</a></li>
- <li><a href="/copyleft/copyleft.html#translationsLGPL">Translations of the
- GNU LGPL</a></li>
- <li><a href="/copyleft/copyleft.html#translationsGFDL">Translations of the
- GNU FDL</a></li>
-</ul>
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</dl><dl>
<dt>24 January 2008</dt>
<dd>We're in the closing days of our winter fundraising drive. We need 70
more members to reach our goal of 500 by the end of the month. <a
href="http://www.fsf.org/join";>Join today</a>, and help spread the word by
adding our <a href="http://www.fsf.org/associate/widget";>fundraising widget</a>
to your blog or web site!</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>20 December 2007</dt>
- <dd>Celebrate <a href="http://gnupg.org";>GnuPG</a>'s <a
href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2007-12/msg00009.html";>10th
birthday</a>!</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>25 November 2007</dt>
- <dd>The <a href="/licenses/agpl.html">GNU Affero General Public License
version 3</a> has been released.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>24 October 2007</dt>
- <dd>A new printed edition of the GNU Emacs manual is now available, covering
the latest release of Emacs (version 22). You can help support the Free
Software Foundation by <a href="http://www.gnu.org/doc/emacs16.html";>ordering a
copy</a>.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>4 August 2007</dt>
- <dd>Participate in <a
href="http://www.tropheesdulibre.org/?lang=en";>Trophees du Libre</a>, an award
for Free Software projects in various categories, focused on unknown and
innovative projects. The deadline for registrations is October 1st.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>29 June 2007</dt>
- <dd>The FSF <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/gplv3_launched";>has
released</a> the <a href="/licenses/gpl.html">GNU General Public License,
version 3</a> and the <a href="/licenses/lgpl.html">Lesser GNU General Public
License, version 3</a>!</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>31 May 2007</dt>
- <dd>The FSF <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/gpl3dd4-released";>has
released</a> the fourth and "last call" draft of the GNU General Public
License, Version 3. Please read and take advantage of this final opportunity
for comment. </dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>20 April 2007</dt>
- <dd>Massachusetts residents can show their support for free software in
government by <a href="http://devalpatrick.com/issue/freesoftware";>voting on
Governor Patrick's website</a>. </dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>12 April 2007</dt>
- <dd>If you are at a university that has a law school, please look at the old
course catalogs and <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>tell us</a> when it first
used the propaganda term <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html";><q>intellectual
property</q></a> in the names of classes.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>28 March 2007</dt>
- <dd>The Free Software Foundation <a
href="http://www.fsf.org/news/gplv3dd3-released";>has released</a> the third
discussion <a href="http://gplv3.fsf.org/guide";>draft</a> of the GNU General
Public License, Version 3. The drafting timeline has also been <a
href="http://gplv3.fsf.org/process-definition";>updated</a>. Please review the
license and <a href="http://gplv3.fsf.org/comment";>leave your comments!</a></dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>26 January 2007</dt>
- <dd>Join <a href="http://defectivebydesign.org";>DefectiveByDesign.org</a>
and <a href="http://badvista.org";>BadVista.org</a> in warning people about the
harms of Windows Vista at Microsoft's celebrity launch party in New York City
on Monday, January 29th. <a
href="http://badvista.fsf.org/blog/share-your-wow-moments-with-badvista-org-in-nyc";>Read
the details</a>, tell some friends, and let us know if you can make it.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>26 January 2007</dt>
- <dd><a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/open-access-petition";>Sign this
petition</a> to show your support for public access to scientific works in the
EU.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>23 November 2006</dt>
- <dd>We are experiencing a leased-line outage. Some resources, including
fencepost, lists and mail, are unavailable. Service should be restored on 24
November.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>2 November 2006</dt>
- <dd>Check out <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/gnewsense";>gNewSense 1.0</a>,
a new free software GNU/Linux distribution created by Brian Brazil and Paul
O'Malley, based on Ubuntu and Debian.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>26 September 2006</dt>
- <dd>The first discussion draft for version 2 of the GNU Free Documentation
License <a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/gfdl-dd1.html";>has been released</a>.
Please read the new text and contribute comments!</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>25 September 2006</dt>
- <dd>Read a few points of <a
href="http://www.fsf.org/news/gplv3-clarification";>clarification by the FSF</a>
with regard to recent misinformation about GPLv3.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>18 September 2006</dt>
- <dd>Watch <a href="http://www.lafkon.net/tc/";>Trusted Computing: An Animated
Short Story</a> by Benjamin Stephen and Lutz Vogel for a great introduction to
what "Trusted Computing" really means.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>22 Aug 2006</dt>
- <dd>The FSF is holding a contest to award the honor of the five-thousandth
entry in the <a href="http://directory.fsf.org";>Free Software Directory</a>. <a
href="http://www.fsf.org/news/directory-contest.html";>Read the news
announcement</a> for the contest details.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>27 Jul 2006</dt>
- <dd>The FSF has released new discussion drafts of the GPL and LGPL. <a
href="http://www.fsf.org/news/gplv3-dd2-released.html";>Read the
announcement</a> and <a href="http://gplv3.fsf.org";>examine the
changes</a>.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>28 Apr 2006</dt>
- <dd>Please <a href="http://www.eff.org/share/petition/";>sign the EFF's
petition in favor of music sharing</a>. There is one flaw in the wording of
this petition. It is a mistake to speak of "compensating musicians" for
copying, because that encourages the <acronym title="Recording Industry
Association of America">RIAA</acronym>'s dangerous pretense that they have
"lost" something when people copy. The appropriate goal is not that musicians
be "compensated" - it is to support music and musicians. However, that is no
reason not to sign the petition.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>21 Apr 2006</dt>
- <dd>Live streaming audio and video are available from the 2nd International
Conference on GPLv3 along with other parts of the 7th International Forum on
Free Software. Please see <a
href="http://gplv3.fsf.org";>http://gplv3.fsf.org/av</a> for the feeds.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>14 Apr 2006</dt>
- <dd>The UK government is asking for comment on issues of concern to free
software supporters. Please send an email comment and pass the word on. See <a
href="http://www.fsf.org/news/uk-comment-042006";>the FSF news item</a> for more
info. The deadline is April 21.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>28 Feb 2006</dt>
- <dd>GNU mailing list subscribers: <a
href="http://lists.gnu.org/";>lists.gnu.org</a> has recovered and is resuming
normal mail delivery. There will be some delay as it works through its backlog,
but we do not expect any messages to be lost. </dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>15 Feb 2006</dt>
- <dd><a href="http://www.nyfairuse.org/action/wipo.xcast/";>Help stop</a> the
WIPO broadcast/netcast treaty---it's like the DMCA but worse. See the <a
href="http://www.fsf.org/news/wipo-broadcast-treaty"; title="News article about
WIPO broadcast treaty">FSF news item</a> for more detail.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>17 Jan 2006</dt>
- <dd><a
href="http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?NewsID=5177/";>Proposal</a>
to impose software patents in the EU.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>11 Jan 2006</dt>
- <dd>Sign <a href="http://www.pledgebank.com/boycottdrm";>this pledge</a> at
PledgeBank to boycott <a
href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#DigitalRightsManagement">DRM</a></dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>03 Jan 2006</dt>
- <dd>Richard Stallman is speaking in New York, NY at an event hosted by
Gnubies and LXNY on January 4th at 6:30pm. For more details, see the <a
href="http://www.fsf.org/events/gnubies20060104.html";>event listing at
fsf.org</a>. </dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>09 Dec 2005</dt>
- <dd>Stop the French government from prohibiting free software! See the <a
href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fs-france.html";>FSF news item</a> for more
information, and <a href="http://eucd.info/petitions/index.php?petition=2";>sign
the petition</a>.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>05 Dec 2005</dt>
- <dd>Richard Stallman will be on the Alex Jones radio show from 13:00 to
14:00 EST on 2005-12-06. For more information, see <a href="http://www.
prisonplanet.com">http://www.prisonplanet.com</a>.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>30 Nov 2005</dt>
- <dd>The GPL3 process is picking up steam. The FSF has released its
<cite>GPL3 Process Definition</cite>, which gives the details and sets the
schedule for how the new license draft will develop. Read the document and sign
up for the new GPLv3 announcement mailing list at <a
href="http://gplv3.fsf.org";>gplv3.fsf.org</a>.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>28 Oct 2005</dt>
- <dd>Stop the sabotage of OpenDocument! Please attend the public hearing in
Boston on Monday, October 31 from 1pm to 5pm in Hearing Room A1 at the State
House. Bring small paper signs to show your support. See <a
href="http://www.fsf.org";>www.fsf.org</a> for more information.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>14 Oct 2005</dt>
- <dd>MPAA and RIAA are trying (again) to push through the Broadcast Flag,
without a hearing. <a
href="http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004047.php";>Read EFF's report</a>
and take action.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>28 August 2005</dt>
- <dd>Listen to RMS interviewed on the GNU/Linux User Show in <a
href="http://www.thepodcastnetwork.com/audio/linuxuser/tpn_linuxuser_20050829_013.ogg";>OGG
format</a>. </dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>15 August 2005</dt>
- <dd>The US Copyright Office is asking for comments on requiring the use of
Internet Explorer for a new preregistration service. The FSF is collecting,
delivering, and posting comments opposing this requirement. <a
href="http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/copyright-comments.html";>Send us your
comments</a> by August 18!</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>06 July 2005</dt>
- <dd>The European Parliament has voted (648 to 14) against an attempt to
impose software patents in Europe!</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>21 June 2005</dt>
- <dd>The FSF is hiring for a <a
href="http://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs/fsf-sysadmin.html";>Senior GNU/Linux
Systems Administrator and Programmer</a> position. </dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>21 June 2005</dt>
- <dd>Richard Stallman's article <a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,1510566,00.html";>Patent
Absurdity</a>, calling on the European Parliament to reject rules allowing
software patents, appears in the Guardian.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>13 May 2005</dt>
- <dd>Free Software loving Christians might be interested in taking a look at
<a href="http://www.lulu.com/dcparris/";>Penguin in the Pew</a>, a book by Don
Parris which expands on the philosophies from a Christian perspective. (Note
that this is a third party work and thus not the official view of the FSF.)</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>10 May 2005 </dt>
- <dd><a href="http://fsfs.hipatia.net/";>The Free Software, Free Society
(FSFS) Conference</a>, organized by Government and civil society organizations
from Brazil, Italy, Venezuela and India, is scheduled for 28-30 May 2005 in the
Southern Indian city of Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), the capital of the
province of Kerala.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>06 May 2005 </dt>
- <dd>The FSF is looking for volunteers to build, test and package fully free
versions of OpenOffice.org 2.0 that use GCJ as a replacement for the non-free
Java platform. Please look at <a
href="http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/OpenOffice2GCJ4";>this page</a>
for a list of bugs, patches and feature requests needed for better support and
instructions for testing and reporting bugs to the GCJ and OpenOffice.org
teams.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>04 April 2005</dt>
- <dd>There is a vital need to draw the Free Software community's attention to
the ongoing development work on Free Flash and Free Java platforms. <a
href="http://www.fsf.org/news/free-java-and-flash.html";>These projects</a> are
important because computer users are continually being seduced into using
non-free software, because there is no adequate free replacement.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>08 March 2005</dt>
- <dd>FSF associate members should <a href="mailto:address@hidden";>RSVP</a>
for this year's <a href="http://www.fsf.org/associate/meetings/2005";>annual
meeting</a>. Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen, Lawrence Lessig and more will be
speaking.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>18 February 2005</dt>
- <dd>The FSF is hiring a full-time <a
href="http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-program-assistant-news.html";>Program
Assistant</a>. </dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>16 February 2005</dt>
- <dd>There will be <a href="http://wiki.ffii.org/DemoBrussels050217En";>a
demonstration against software patents in Brussels</a> </dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>16 February 2005</dt>
- <dd><a href="http://www.fsf.org/news/new-executive-director.html";>The FSF
has appointed a new Executive Director</a> and got a new, distinct <a
href="http://www.fsf.org";>website</a>.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>22 January 2005</dt>
- <dd><b>URGENT</b>: The European software patent directive is being
introduced at the Council for Agriculture and Fishery on January 24. More info
<a href="http://kwiki.ffii.org/Fish0501En";>here</a>. <a
href="http://kwiki.ffii.org/FishDemo0501En";>Immediate action</a> is necessary!
More information can be found on <a
href="http://www.ffii.org/index.en.html";>Foundation for a Free Information
Infrastructure</a>'s website.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>04 January 2005 </dt>
- <dd>Current FSF associate members will receive a <a
href="http://member.fsf.org/referral-2004";>customized message recorded by RMS
or Eben Moglen</a>, suitable for use as the greeting on their answering
machine, voicemail or home page, when they inspire three new people to join as
annual members!</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>03 January 2005</dt>
- <dd>We have revised the music to the <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.html";>Free Software Song</a>.
The <a href="http://www.cs.uu.nl/%7Ehanwen/lilypond/index.htm";>Lilypond</a> are
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.ly";>here</a> and <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.ps.gz";>here</a>.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>03 January 2005</dt>
- <dd>GNU founder <a href="http://www.stallman.org";>Richard Stallman</a> will
be doing an interview with <a href="http://radioactiveradio.org/";>radioActive
San Diego</a> on Thursday, 06 Jan 2005 at 7PM PST (GMT -8). Those living in San
Diego, CA, USA can listen to it on 106.9 FM. A press release can be found <a
href="http://livejournal.com/users/dj_lotus";>here</a>.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>02 January 2005</dt>
- <dd>Thanks to Turkish artist Kursad Karatas we now have <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/graphics/kafa.html";>abstract art of our mascot</a>.
</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>29 December 2004</dt>
- <dd>There is a <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html";>new
page up for Windows users</a>, aimed at the Free Software curious. </dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>24 December 2004</dt>
- <dd>We have placed a banner on top of the main page to thank Poland for
blocking the European software patent vote. We urge all proponents of software
Freedom to not only do the same with their own sites, but also send a letter
thanking them for doing so. More information can be found <a
href="/thankpoland.html">here</a>.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>14 Decemeber 2004 </dt>
- <dd>www.gnu.org now provides an RSS feed for our <a
href="/server/whatsnew.html">what's new</a> page. We are gradually
internationalizing our news. You should soon be able to read GNU RSS in your
own language.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>19 November 2004</dt>
- <dd>
- <a href="/jobs/fsf-sysadmin.html">FSF is currently seeking a full-time
Senior GNU/Linux Systems Administrator and Programmer</a>
- </dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>14 September 2004</dt>
- <dd>Added Richard Stallman's new article: <a
href="/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.html">Fighting Software Patents -
Singly and Together</a>, with a link from the <a
href="/philosophy/philosophy.html#LicensingFreeSoftware">Philosophy</a>
page.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>14 September 2004</dt>
- <dd>Added a new SVG logo to the <a href="/graphics/gnusvgart.html">GNU SVG
Art page</a>.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>21 August 2004</dt>
- <dd>Added a <a href="/home.ru.html">Russian translation</a> of the main
page.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>21 July 2004</dt>
- <dd>FSF is offering <a href="http://patron.fsf.org/sf2004seminar.html";>two
days of seminars at Stanford University</a> on the <abbr>GPL</abbr> and Free
Software Licensing on August 24 and 25 of 2004.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>6 July 2004</dt>
- <dd><a href="http://www.gnu.org/people/speakers.html#Stallman";>Richard M.
Stallman</a> put a short note on the <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html";>license page</a>
explaining why the <a
href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/rpl.php";>Reciprocal Public License</a>
is a non-free license.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>6 July 2004</dt>
- <dd><a
href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/story.jsp?story=537951";>The
Independent</a> reports a US Computer Emergency Response Team alert regarding
Microsoft's Internet Explorer security vulnerabilities. "It is possible to
reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different web browser." <br
/> (However, they should not refer to the people who exploit these security
holes as <a
href="http://www.stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html";>"hackers"</a>.)</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>1 July 2004</dt>
- <dd>The Dutch parliament voted to take its support away from the EU software
patent directive. If a few other countries change their votes, software patents
in Europe may be defeated in the Council of Ministers. <a
href="http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040702085542832";>http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040702085542832</a></dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>21 June 2004</dt>
- <dd>FSF <a href="http://member.fsf.org";>The Associate Membership site has a
new interface</a>.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>21 June 2004</dt>
- <dd>FSF <a href="/jobs/fsf-db.html">seeks a system analyst/database
guru</a>.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>4 June 2004</dt>
- <dd>Added a <a href="/server/takeaction.html">Take Action</a> page, and
linked to it from the front page, and from <a
href="/keepingup.html#takeaction">/keepingup.html</a>. The purpose was to allow
for greater flexibility of description of what actions we can take, while still
providing a brief summary on the front page to explain what we need help with.
Take Action is modeled after the What's New page.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>21 May 2004</dt>
- <dd>Added new instructions for mirroring www.gnu.org to <a
href="/server/mirror.html">www.gnu.org/server/mirror.html</a>. We are now
recommending using rsync to update mirrors (from ibiblio.org, rather than
directly from us).</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>18 May 2004</dt>
- <dd>Added <a href="/fun/jokes/merry-xmas.xhtml">Merry Christmas in 4
languages</a> to the <a href="/fun/humor.html">humor page</a>.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>13 April 2004</dt>
- <dd>
- <a href="http://agia.fsf.org/associate/leadership";>Larry Lessig joins the
Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation.</a>
- </dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>13 April 2004</dt>
- <dd>Added Richard Stallman's new article: <a
href="/philosophy/java-trap.html">Free But Shackled - The Java Trap</a>, with a
link from the <a
href="/philosophy/philosophy.html#LicensingFreeSoftware">Philosophy</a>
page.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>11 April 2004</dt>
- <dd>Added a link to the UTUTO-e GNU/Linux distribution to the <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#OtherFreeSoftware";>Links to Other
Free Software Sites</a> page.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>1 March 2004</dt>
- <dd>Added a link to Prof Eben Moglen's speech at Harvard, to the <a
href="/philosophy/philosophy.html#Speeches">Philosophy</a> page.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>25 February 2004</dt>
- <dd>New action item on the <a href="/home.html">home page</a> regarding
proposed U.S. copyright bill</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>24 February 2004</dt>
- <dd>Added a new picture - <a href="/graphics/gnu-jacket.html">a Gnu wearing
a jacket</a> - to the <a href="/graphics/graphics.html">GNU art</a> page.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>22 February 2004</dt>
- <dd>Added RMS essay, <a href="/philosophy/my_doom.html">MyDoom and
You</a></dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>12 February 2004</dt>
- <dd>Added the new FSF bulletin Issues 1 and 2 to <a
href="/bulletins">Bulletins page</a>.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>29 January 2004</dt>
- <dd>Added a link on the <a href="/home.html">home page</a> requesting
suggestions for free software packages to add to the <a href="/directory">Free
Software Directory</a>.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>23 January 2004</dt>
- <dd>New look to the gnu.org <a href="/home.html">home page</a>.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>20 January 2004</dt>
- <dd>
- <a href="/events/nyc-2004-01.html">Events in New York between January 20 -
23</a>
- </dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>14 January 2004</dt>
- <dd><a href="/press/2004-01-14-record-straight.html">FSF to host press
conference on the General Public License and SCO versus IBM</a>.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>12 January 2004</dt>
- <dd>Added a link on the <a href="/graphics/graphics.html">graphics page</a>
to an <a href="/graphics/supergnu-ascii.html">ASCII Super Gnu</a>.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>8 January 2004</dt>
- <dd>New essay by Richard Stallman: " <a
href="/philosophy/use-free-software.html">The Free Software Community After 20
Years: With great but incomplete success, what now?</a> "</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>8 January 2004</dt>
- <dd>Added a link on the <a href="/home.html">home page</a> to the <a
href="http://efn.no/jonjohansen-en.html";>English version</a> of the EFN's web
page about the Jon Lech Johansen ("DVD Jon") case.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>7 January 2004</dt>
- <dd>Added a link on the <a href="/home.html">home page</a> to a news
article: The Norwegian appeals court sustained the ruling that <a
href="http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=696330";>DeCSS
is not illegal</a>.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>6 January 2004</dt>
- <dd>Article about the <a href="/philosophy/wsis.html">World Summit on the
Information Society</a> by Richard Stallman.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>6 January 2004</dt>
- <dd>Added a link to the <a href="http://linux.bnv-bamberg.de/";>GNU/Linux
User Group Bamberg/Forchheim</a> website on the <a
href="/gnu/gnu-user-groups.html">User Groups</a> page.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>5 January 2004</dt>
- <dd>Added the <a href="/keepingup.html">Keeping Up With GNU and the FSF</a>
page.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>2 January 2004</dt>
- <dd><a href="/fun/jokes/gcc.html">Another humorous email</a> received by
rms, this time suggesting new options to gcc.</dd>
-</dl><dl>
- <dt>2 January 2004</dt>
- <dd><a href="/press/2004-01-02-nyc-seminars.html">FSF To Host Free Software
Licensing Seminars and Discussions on SCO v. IBM in New York</a>. (<a
href="/press/2004-01-02-nyc-seminars.txt">A plain text version is also
available</a>.)</dd>
</dl><h4 xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>What was New in Prior
Years</h4><ul xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
<li>
+ <a href="/server/07whatsnew.html">
+ <strong>2007</strong>
+ </a>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <a href="/server/06whatsnew.html">
+ <strong>2006</strong>
+ </a>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <a href="/server/05whatsnew.html">
+ <strong>2005</strong>
+ </a>
+ </li>
+ <li>
+ <a href="/server/04whatsnew.html">
+ <strong>2004</strong>
+ </a>
+ </li>
+ <li>
<a href="/server/03whatsnew.html">
<strong>2003</strong>
</a>
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