Fsf-friends April 2007

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Need Funds for Open Source Software development!!
by Anand Kulkarni 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

Hi, SVS (Sarvangin Vikas Sanstha) is India based non-profit social trust. We have been developing open source softwares for the rural area school children from the last 2 years. You can download our softwares from http://svs.org.in/Downloads.html. In this financial year i.e. April 2007 to March 2008, we have decided to undertake total 13 open source projects. And naturally we require funds for such projects. You can see our project calendar at http://svs.org.in/donations.html. We request open minded people to provide us financial help. I am not aware about the various mailing lists in operating in different parts of the cities. So, I request you to please forward this email to many other mailing lists and the concerned people. The matter is bit urgent. SVS comes under 80G certificate, so that the donations get Tax benefits. For further details, feel free to revert back. Thanks. regards, Anand Kulkarni 9422515760(M) http://svs.org.in __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Shocking Stuff..
by Mahesh M 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Two days back it came to my notice that a program called Teminal Server Client uses an icon that contains the M$ Windows Logo.. I was running my EDUBUNTU. Well it could not have been done by mistake.. Hope the future releases will not show the same again. Its a shame.. -- Mahesh Its sure to be dark if you close your eyes.

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Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 48, Issue 19
by Mishi Choudhary 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Dear Editor, I'm happy to see that my photo of a building by Padamashree Laurie Baker being published in you esteemed new paper, that too in editorial page. Same time it is really saddening to see that I am not attributed for the work I've done. It is really disappointing for an budding photographer like me. Simple attribution from your side would have been a moral boost to people like me. The picture you have given in this editorial is taken by me here in Trivandrum. you can find this picture here in this link http://flickr.com/photos/kkseema/339827261/ . If you look into the copyright agreement section of the site you can see that I used Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 (Creative Commons) license for my work. I do want people to use my work with their creative work.I dont want to control my work. I request only attribution for work I've done. Unfortunately you did not comply with the licensing conditions I've placed over my work and hence violated my copyright. Flickr from you have downloaded the picture has an internal mechanism to contact the concerned person..at least you could have done that. Its my friends from goa and other parts called up to tell me that my picture has been published. I have written in my profile to please let me know before using any image. I think you owe me an explanation now. (so far I haven't received any reply to this mail..) Posted by Seema K K at 10:53 PM this letter was sent by this talented photographer who distributes her collection of photographs under the creative commons license.the picture Was used by Mr Amrith Lal, in his article on Laurie Baker titled Master Builder which appeared on Editorial Page of the Times Of India e- paper on 21st april2007.however the picture was not attributed to our young friend which is a clear violation of the creative commons license . But with our little efforts, Arun M and Seema, the photographer we managed to extract an apology as well as the assurance that an acknowledgement to Seema will appear on the website. I made sure he understood what creative commons and licensing under the same implies and its importance. Warm Regards Mishi Choudhary

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Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 48, Issue 19
by Mishi Choudhary 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

Intellectual property" as a category (never mind whether it is "propaganda" or a legitimate taxonomy--those /are/ rules of property rather than liability) is a post-1945 conception. The US Congress names for /committees/, as opposed to subcommittees, is fixed by tradition and maintained by the territorialism of committee chairs; there are no committees called "intellectual property." Primary jurisdiction over such legislation is held in both Houses by the Committees on the Judiciary, with theoretically secondary jurisdiction in the Commerce Committees. Warm Regards Mishi Choudhary

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Re: [Fsf-friends] Shocking Stuff..
by Ajay Pal Singh Atwal 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

----- Mahesh M <maheshmukundan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Two days back it came to my notice that a program called Teminal > Server > Client uses an icon that contains the M$ Windows Logo.. I was running > my > EDUBUNTU. Well it could not have been done by mistake.. :-) Well the TS Client is meant for Windows, and using an icon representing the same is not bad, I think it is fair use. And, going by your definition, Ubuntu is not even completely free. See: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7895189911.html -- Sincerely Ajay Pal Singh Atwal Dept of CSE & IT BBSBEC, Fatehgarh Sahib Punjab, INDIA -------------------------------- http://www.bbsbec.ac.in http://www.ajaypal.com -------------------------------- ajaypal[at]bbsbec.org, ajaypal[at]acm.org

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MP3
by Mahesh M 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

I found the following in the MP3 Wiki.. In spite of the patent restrictions, the perpetuation of the MP3 format continues; the reasons for this appear to be the network effects<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect>caused by: - familiarity with the format, - the large quantity of music now available in the MP3 format, - the wide variety of existing software and hardware that takes advantage of the file format, - the lack of DRM<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management>restrictions, which makes MP3 files easy to edit, copy and distribute over networks, - the majority of home users not knowing or not caring about the patents controversy, who often do not consider such legal issues in choosing their music format for personal use. Well, i dont know how many of us know this.... -- Mahesh Its sure to be dark if you close your eyes.

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stallman.org needs volunteers
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 26 Apr '07

26 Apr '07

" I am looking for volunteers to give me information for two reseach projects. One project is to verify when various US law schools started using the propaganda term "intellectual property" in names of classes. If you are at a university which has a law school, you could probably easily find out when it did so. The other project is to find out when the US Congress started to have committees named "intellectual property". If you have information for me, please email it to rms at gnu dot orgy minus the y. I am looking for a couple of additional volunteers to help edit the pages on the site for me. If you'd like to help me in this way, please write to rms at gnu period org." That is Richard Stallman on http://stallman.org/ Interested candidates mail him directly. You would need to be able to do ssh to stallman.org for the second item. Cheers, Debarshi -- GPG key ID: 63D4A5A7 Key server: pgp.mit.edu

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(no subject)
by Mishi Choudhary 25 Apr '07

25 Apr '07

From: Eben Moglen <moglen(a)columbia.edu> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 20:16:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <15287.46535.662795.498768(a)moglen.law.columbia.edu> To: www-patentpolicy-comment(a)w3.org I write on behalf of the Free Software Foundation to oppose the the W3C's adoption of a patent-friendly standards policy. The World Wide Web cannot exist as a global and uniformly-available facility of human society without free software. Apache, Perl PHP--and literally hundreds of other immediately recognizable aspects of web technology--have been outgrowths of the free software production model. Without free software, the web would be a commercialized outgrowth of a few proprietary software producers, and it would be incapable of serving, as it now does, as a force for global egalitarianism. Because the Web employs no technology not based around completely open standards, software implementing every single facility of Web life can be produced in the free software model, and is therefore available for free modification and improvement all over the world, supplied at the marginal cost of distribution to any programmer--no matter how financially constrained--who wishes to produce new facilities and opportunities for users. "Reasonable and non-discriminatory" licensing of patented technology embodied in W3C standards will eliminate free software production from any area of Web facilities subject to those standards. Such standards will therefore provide a basis to "embrace and extend" the Web under proprietary control, excluding competition from free software, limiting technical innovation and risking the social utility of the Web. W3C standards should not incorporate any patented technology. If patented technology is, for whatever reason, absolutely necessary to the articulation of Web standards, only such patents should be considered for inclusion as are licensed under terms compatible with section 7 of the GNU General Public License (GPL), which is the worldwide standard in free software licensing. Patents licensed compatibly with GPL can be practiced without royalty or recordkeeping obligations, and are thus useful in software that any user can modify or redistribute. The W3C patent policy should not be RAND, it should be GPL. -- Eben Moglen voice: 212-854-8382 Professor of Law fax: 212-854-7946 moglen@ Columbia Law School, 435 West 116th Street, NYC 10027 columbia.edu General Counsel, Free Software Foundation http://moglen.law.columbia.edu Warm Regards Mishi Choudhary

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How many Debian Etch CDs you need?
by Praveen A 24 Apr '07

24 Apr '07

Hi, Interesting overview of the 331 discs of Debian 4.0 etch http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/tour_of_the_Debian_4.0_CDs/ Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 48, Issue 16
by Mishi Choudhary 23 Apr '07

23 Apr '07

Dear All Prof moglen will be in india sometime in june this year, we can probably use this opportunity to hear from the hors'es mouth himself about GPLV3.....cann we organise something for the same Warm Regards Mishi Choudhary

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