Fsf-friends May 2007

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by Ramanraj K

Allison Randal has written on the GPLv3 draft: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/gplv3_clarity_a.html Very interesting. Ramanraj K

15 years, 10 months

Patent show down?

by Ramanraj K

"Software patents" are a gross lie. Computer programs are not patentable, under TRIPs, and in several jurisdictions including India, UK, several Latin American nations, this is made very clear under their municipal laws. US is a signatory to TRIPs and Computer programs could be protected only as literary works, But in the US, those with vested interests have continued to abuse patent law to make ridiculous, illegal and unlawful claims. Finally, the time to call the bluff of the "Software patent" crowd may be very near: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867…

15 years, 10 months

Vista incapable

by Ramanraj K

We are generally aware that Microsoft is incapable of respecting software freedom and it has bad vista. The billion dollar question of the year is whether it is "Vista capable" or incapable: http://www.itweek.co.uk/vnunet/news/2187159/microsoft-sued-vista-specs

15 years, 10 months

Free legal resources

by Ramanraj K

A couple of years ago, I wrote a post to this list about the "Free the Law" movement at austlii: http://gnowledge.org/pipermail/fsf-friends/2004-June/002093.html I recently visited and found the following at austlii.edu: Indian Legislation: http://www.commonlii.org/in/legis/num_act/ Supreme Court of India cases: http://www.worldlii.org/in/cases/INSC/ Madras High Court cases: http://www.austlii.edu.au/~andrew/CommonLII/INHCM/ The content is based on Judis and info available at NIC servers, but the information is more neatly cited, indexed and presented. Ramanraj K

15 years, 10 months

fablab

by Ramanraj K

There is a fablab near Pune, run using free software with help from MIT, where one can fabricate almost anything: http://www.vigyanashram.com/ This is 3 years old now but not very widely known. Ramanraj K

15 years, 10 months

Reminder: the single greatest technical library on earth -- available to you Free of cost

by Praveen A

Hi, Recently in a ilugc discussion thread John Leuner (Debian developer from Pretoria, SA, now working in India) suggested "Freeing the Mind : Free Software and the Death of Proprietary Culture" as a topic for Eben when he visits Chennai. http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/maine-speech.html That once is a beautiful and elegant speech indeed, my favorite now as well. He answers most of the frequently asked questions about Free Software in a simple and elegant way which anyone could understand and relate. Some quotes from that speech, "Free software is the single greatest technical library on earth. I say that because free software is the only field where a person can go from naiveté, to the state of the art, in everything that a particular field contains, solely by reading material that is universally available at no cost everywhere the network exists. That is the single, greatest intellectual capital development program in the world." Every single line is so beautiful and precise like this, ....to all forms of useful knowledge and information. The model is: ``Here; I think you need this: take it.'' It is one such gem of a talk which you want to book mark, print, by heart and keep coming back when in doubt. Still amused at each single line of it. Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

15 years, 10 months

Re: Fsf-friends Digest, Vol 49, Issue 8

by Mishi Choudhary

Eben Moglen Named to eWEEK's "Top 100 Most Influential People in IT" List Eben Moglen, Founding Director of the Software Freedom Law Center, has been ranked among the Top 100 Most Influential People in IT. Ranked #92, Moglen is cited as an "expert in open source law and one of the guiding lights of GPL 3." The list was published online between March 15 and March 26, and published in print in the April 23 issue of eWEEK. A committee of veteran writers and editors from Baseline, CIO Insight, and eWEEK nominated individuals based on the following criteria: The person's tangible track record of information technology success. The scope of influence the person has beyond his or her own organization. The ability of the individual to effect change. The level of engagement the person has in developing today's emerging technologies. The list is available online at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2104992,00.asp. Warm Regards Mishi Choudhary

15 years, 10 months

Debian Kannada l10n mailing list

by Vikram Vincent

Hello All, We are happy to announce the creation of http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-kannada/ for Debian Kannada l10n Localisation (Swatantra Kannada localisation). Please do join and help further the Swatantra Kannada localisation. -- Regards Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://groups.google.com/group/bangalore_alive/ http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_to_promote_free_software_in_karnataka

15 years, 10 months

Fwd: Announce: DebianArt.org

by Praveen A

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: André Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira Date: २००७ मई १० ०२:१८ Subject: Announce: DebianArt.org To: debian-desktop Hi all, After some comments in debian-desktop list[1], the DebianArtwork Team[2] prepared the DebianArt.org site[3]. DebianArt.org is a place for high quality artwork and themes for the Debian Desktop[4]. The idea is use the website for contests, creating an archive of user contributed artwork that can be freely used and included in upcoming Debian releases. The artwork should be pleasant, yet unintrusive. Ideally, it should work well with the default user interface of the three major desktops: GNOME, KDE and Xfce; but there's also room for more generic Debian related artwork like t-shirts, labels and system sounds. For example, the Debian Desktop team can create contests for create packages of popular files. The user can put the follows categories: - Wallpaper - Splash screen - Icon - System sound - Logo - Usplash - T-shirt - Screenshot - Generic What do you think? We think this is one of the available ways for a best desktop.... Can you test? Please register and put your artworking :D Thanks to Valessio Brito and Gustavo Franco by their precious help !!! Links: [1] - http://lists.debian.org/debian-desktop/2007/04/msg00045.html [2] - http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktopArtwork [3] - http://www.debianart.org [4] - http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-desktop/ -- Andre Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira (si0ux) <andrelrf(a)gmail.com> ******************************************************************* Orlandia - SP - Brazil "Unix is user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are." -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

15 years, 10 months

Which license should I use?

by Manilal K M

Hello all, I wish to start a FOSS based project for enterprise use. The project is developed in LAMP(GNU/Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) suite and also uses third party libraries like Smarty(http://smarty.php.net) , Xajax(http://xajaxproject.org) and ADOdb (http://adodb.sourceforge.net/). All these libraries are licensed under LGPL. Can I use GNU GPL(v2) for the above software? Kindly provide some guidance. regards Manilal K M.

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