Good Morning, Friends!
Forwarding an email that came up on the FSF Europe mailing list. The
transcript makes excellent reading. Plus there is also a streaming video
available - links are provided in the URL below.
Additionally, have a look at: http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/
On similar lines, I suggest that we have a page on our wiki that details
and minutes all that we do towards the forthcoming GPLv3 event in
August. I'll try to create the page today and fill it in with all the
activities that have happened. Others can then put in requests, TODOs
and more details...
Cheers, Abhas.
----- Forwarded message from Ciaran O'Riordan <ciaran(a)fsfe.org> -----
From: Ciaran O'Riordan <ciaran(a)fsfe.org>
To: discussion(a)fsfeurope.org
Subject: Transcript of Richard's GPLv3 presentation and Q&A from Torino,
March 18th
Date: 30 Mar 2006 15:30:24 +0100
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I've made and put online a transcript of RMS's presentation and Q&A session
from the recent GPLv3 event: "The Future of Free Software" March 18th,
Turin, Italy:
http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/torino-rms-transcript.en.html
Sections
1. First, a note on "intellectual property"
2. On to the GPLv3
3. About "or any later version" and transitioning between versions
4. Software patents: explicit patent grants
5. The four freedoms of Free Software
6. Digital Restrictions Management: how it was tackled without
restricting usage or modification
7. DRM and laws about effective restriction measures
8. Licence compatibility
9. Compatibility with Affero - addressing web services, if you want
10. Compatibility with two kinds of patent retaliation
11. The draft GPLv3 does contain a very limited patent retaliation clause
12. Requirements for notifying users of the licence terms
13. Question 1: What about Linux?
14. Question 2: About dynamic linking and languages
15. Question 3a: What if someone thinks the spirit has been changed?
16. Question 3b: Can writing Free Software beat DRM or is lobbying needed?
(Stallman's answer discusses democracy)
17. Question 4: Who is involved in the process?
18. Question 5: Why is there not a team running it instead of you, and who
will run it next time?
19. Question 6: What ideas for GPLv3 were rejected?
And I've added a link to it on the GPLv3 wiki page for such texts:
http://gplv3.fsf.org/wiki/index.php/Reusable_texts
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Issue VII - 29 March 2006
Welcome to the seventh issue of LDTP Newsletter! We are now celebrating
our 0.4.0 release. This release features
exhaustive list of bug fixes. LDTP is now stable than ever
before.Useful references have been included at the end of this
article for those who wish to hack/use LDTP.
About LDTP
Linux Desktop Testing Project is aimed at producing high quality test
automation framework and cutting-edge tools
that can be used to test Linux Desktop and improve it. It uses the
"Accessibility" libraries to poke through the application's
user interface. Thanks to the Accessibility team. LDTP automation
framework helps in automatically executing test cases
for verifying the functionality of the software being tested.
This release includes....
* Refined object search from the appmap table
* Data XML are now transmitted and received with in CDATA
* Reimplemented getwindowlist, getobjectlist,
getobjectinfo,getobjectproperty
* Memory leak fixed - Freed memory resources when client disconnects
And now take a deep breath and go through the exhaustive list of bug
fixes which makes this version of LDTP the most stable of the lot.
A special thanks to Patrick from Sun Microsystems who has actively
hacked LDTP and helped us identify and resolve many issues.
* client-handler.c (add_item_to_list): A common function to
generate XML object list.
* client-handler.c (send_response): If data sent in chunks
from
server to client, then the peek code in client was not able to
continue reading the next chunk as the recv with peek option
always returns the first chunk.
* client-handler.c (handle_request): Implemented
getwindowlist,
getobjectlist, getobjectinfo, getobjectproperty. Modified
initappmap to get the file name from gslist only once. Memory
leak
fixed - Freed memory resources when client disconnects.
* ldtp.c (ldtp_print): Indentation
* ldtp-appmap.c (remove_appmap_entries): Memory leak fixed -
Freed
memory resources when client disconnects.
* ldtp-appmap.c (search_obj_after_stripping_space): Added new
function to search for an object after stripping spaces.
* ldtp-appmap.c (add_child_attributes): Modified it as static
function.
* ldtp-appmap.c (ldtp_appmap_free): If appmap is not NULL then
only traverse the hash table. To avoid a critical warning.
* ldtp-appmap.c (search_label_based): Modified the logic to
check
for label or label_by and also, if under score is in value,
then
remove it and then look for the match.
* ldtp-command.c (ldtp_command_init_command_table): Added
getwindowlist, getobjectlist, getobjectinfo, getobjectproperty
commands to the list of commands.
* ldtp-error.c (ldtp_error_get_error_message): Added new error
messages.
* ldtp-gui.c (ldtp_gui_get_gui_handle): If appmap is not
initialized, then try to initialize it by updating the window
handle.
* ldtp-gui.c (update_cur_window_appmap_handle): Checked for
argument NULL to avoid crash.
* ldtp-logger.c (ldtp_log): vprintf also will be printed iff
LDTP_DEBUG option is enabled.
* ldtp-request.c (ldtp_request_fill_request): When XML packet
is
NULL don't process further, which avoids a crash.
* ldtp-utils.c (escape_character): Modified function name
escape_under_score to escape_character and also added one
parameter to make this function a generic one. Check if
argument
is not NULL then continue else return immediately.
* remap.c (get_keybinding, filter_appmap_data,
get_object_info,
add_appmap_data): Checked for NULL arguments to avoid crash.
* remap.c (accessible_object_handle): Avoided memory
fragmentation
as the same data is allocated multiple times.
LDTP 0.4.0 is available is rpm package. Thanks to Damien Carbery and
Dave Lin of
Sun Microsystems for creating LDTP packages for solaris.
LDTP makes news
An article has been published in the German journal
"Software-Wydawnictwo Sp. z o.o" about LDTP.
If your in Germany, dont let this oppurtunity slip away. Grab a copy
and check out the simple article
which covers the length and breadth of LDTP.
Downloads...
You can download the latest version of LDTP from
http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Downloads
LDTP is available as rpm package. LDTP is also available as deb package
for Debian and Ubuntu distributions. Thanks to Casanova
(prashmohan(a)gmail.com) for the providing the same.
For a step by step instruction on setting up LDTP please refer
http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/How_20to_20setup_20pyldtp_20in_20GNU_2fLin…
References
For detailed information on LDTP framework and latest updates visit
http://ldtp.freedesktop.org
All the published newsletters including the current one can be
downloaded from http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Newsletters
For release notes of every release including the current one please
refer http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Release_20Notes
For information on various APIs in LDTP including those added for this
release can be got from http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/API_20Reference
To subscribe to LDTP mailing lists, visit
http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/Mailing_20list
IRC Channel - #ldtp on irc.freenode.net
For suggestions to improve this newsletter, please write to
jpremkumar(a)novell.com
Nagappan A <anagappan(a)novell.com>
Linux Desktop Testing Project - http://ldtp.freedesktop.orghttp://nagappanal.blogspot.com
Hello Friends,
The LDTP Workshop is one of those events I will
certainly cherish for life. First, I would like
mention (and thank) Saranavan Prabu, Thejesh and
Vikram who started from far flung places like Domlur,
Electronics City and Koramangala to be at Kempagowda
Bus Station before 6 AM. Hat's Off guys.
The Journey
-----------
Our journey was quite uneventful except for the irate
passenger shouting at the driver, our friends having
neck ache's at every bump and a driver who's was
either drunk or was surely high on something. I
strongly suspect that the Rajhamsa bus was
bullock-powered not by regular inter-combustion
engine. ;o) When we stopped just outside Mandya for
breakfast, I was so relieved to find my feet finally
back on ground that I hung around the canteen so long
that we almost missed the bus. But, how could the bus
leave without GNU(Head)'s I say ;o)
On Campus
---------
On reaching SJCE campus I decided to chuck the idea of
a workshop and go placing cricket but the saner
members of our groups suggested that the pitch may
sustain potholes and deep bumps if I lugged my tonnage
around. Darn!.
We met the students from Linux Computer Club-SJCE,.
Sandesh, Osho and they gave us tour of the various
departments labs. We found a printout stating 'No
Closed Source' in big letters taped to the Electronics
Department Computer lab. ;oD I never saw a college
that had TFT monitors and latest computers in almost
all of its labs. SJCE seems to be a very progressive
college I ever seen.
(The photo's of the events will be posted shortly)
The Students
------------
The students of Linux Computer Club-SJCE had been
working for days to convince their faculties to keep
the labs open on sunday and allow them to install
gnu/Linux on the computers so that we could have a
hands-on workshop. Its an event which wouldn't have
been organized without the adamant efforts of these
guys. Thanks Guy, You Rock !!!!!!!!!!!
The Event
----------
We had to start the event quite late around 11:30 and
then we had few students who had come for the event.
The turnout was not great as it was a weekend. Thejesh
started the workshop with his talk on 'FOSS and
student projects', in absence of a good public address
system(the only problem we had) we had rely on the
reach of our vocal chords most of the time. The good
side of this was it was more fun filled classroom talk
sort-of-event rather unlike the regular events.
Saravana Prabhu took off the Linux Destop Testing
Project(LDTP) workshop with talks on introducing
Software Testing and later a more technical talk on
the architecture of the project. I didn't have much
change to listen to the talk as I was constantly
running to the M-tech lab, trying to understand how
SuSe worked and how to debug the problems with LDTP
setup. After a few hic-up's the LCC-SJCE guys figured
out what the problem and fixed the problem only to
find that the labs had closed before we can move the
workshop to the lab for a hands-on session. Darn!
Rama Krishna appeared out of nowhere to deliver us
from insanity and gave us a very entertaining talk on
Free Software projects, localization and opportunities
for students in the industry (and other topics I fail
to remember). His informal one-to-one kind of
entertaining talk with great slides (it had Bollywood
heros/heroines dressed like in the Hollywood movie
'The Matrix') and even a pop quiz's that won few
guy's a Mozilla Project T-Shirts. It left us the
organizers the perpetual back-benchers shouting for
t-shirts too.
(Thejesh and me were cursing ourselves why didn't we
have Rama Krishna start the event with his talk. [He
was delivering another talk that day in NIE])
The day ended with LCC-SJCE guys planning how they
could work to build they club and few suggests were
discussed like having a website,having regular talks,
calling for volunteers and finally working on
projects. The day ended quite late at 3pm and everyone
was excited but no body seems to be either hungry or
ready to left the venue even after the auditorium was
locked. ;o)
So, we all called it day and LCC-SJCE took us all
(except Rama Krishna who had another appointment) to
cool place for lunch and we had few more fun-filled
hour with myself playing the jester and easy target
for jokes. We left Mysore and sweet joy of breathing
pure oxygen filled air at 4pm.
Guy's let do it once more some other time, shall we ?
Cheers
--arky
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Richard Stallman <rms(a)gnu.org>
Date: Mar 27, 2006 2:05 PM
Subject: [+PLUS][I+MM] Hello
To: plus-discuss(a)lists.sarovar.org
March - Iginite the PLUS month
---------------------------------------------
Hello, Libre users of Palakkad!
It is exciting to address a group of people who understand what GNU is
really all about. Most operating systems were developed for
commercial motives or technical motives, but GNU was developed for
ethical ideals: freedom and community.
All user groups invite, teach and help people to use the GNU/Linux
system, and I'm sure you are going to do that. But your commitment to
freedom means you can also do jobs that get to the root of the matter,
campaigning for software freedom in your schools, in your civic
institutions, and in all areas of life.
Thank you for helping our community, and best wishes to your work.
_______________________________________________
Palakkad Libre software Users Society Main Mailing List
"Adding freedom to common minds"
PLUS-discuss(a)lists.sarovar.org
http://lists.sarovar.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plus-discuss
--
"Value your freedom, or you will lose it, teaches history.
`Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn."
-- Richard Stallman
Me scribbles at http://www.pravi.co.nr
FYI
Cheers
--arky
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Hi,
Here is the details of the "LDTP Workshop" in SJCE
College in Mysore this sunday March 26.
It would be great if you can join us in Mysore and
help us make this event a success.
Cheers
--arky
LDTP Workshop in SJCE Mysore.
Sunday, March 26 2006
Keynote Lecture "FOSS and College Projects"
Thejesh GN <http://www.techmag.biz>
Duration: 25 minutes + QA 10 minutes
Linux Desktop Testing Project (LDTP) Workshop
By Saravana Prabhu of LDTP Developer Team
<http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/>
1. Basic testing
2. Testing as a career
3. Open vs Closed Source Testing
4. Linux Desktop Testing Project (1.5 hours)
* Overview
* Architecture
* Demo
Duration: 3:00 Hours
Hi List,
Two stories about GPL and CC being upheld by courts in
different continents.Any commentary and explanation of
the impact of such rulings would very enlightening.
TIA
--arky
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [GNU/FSF Press] Press Release: GPL tested in
US courts in Wallace
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:52:39 -0500
From: Peter Brown <peterb(a)fsf.org>
To: info-press(a)gnu.org
The GPL tested in US courts - Wallace Vs FSF.
The GNU General Public License stands firm.
On Monday March 20, 2006 US Federal Judge John Daniel
Tinder, dismissed
the Sherman Act antitrust claims brought against the
Free Software
Foundation. The claims made by Plaintiff Daniel
Wallace included: that
the General Public License (GPL) constituted a
contract, combination or
conspiracy; that it created an unreasonable restraint
of trade; and that
the FSF conspired with IBM, Red Hat Inc., Novell and
other individuals
to pool and cross-license their copyrighted
intellectual property in a
predatory price fixing scheme.
Peter Brown, FSF Executive Director, responded to the
news, "As the
author of the GPL and copyright holder on the largest
body of GPL'd
covered free software, the FSF hears many theories of
potential legal
claims and challenges to the GPL. We hear the fear,
uncertainty and
doubt (FUD) expressed, that the GPL has never been
tested in court, and
that somehow that is a sign of its weakness. Nothing
could be further
from the truth of course. Put quite simply, if you
don't accept the
terms of the GPL, then you have no rights to the
copyrighted works it
covers. What is there left to test? The GPL is a
software license, it is
not a contract. It gives permissions from the
copyright holder. You
don't want to accept those permissions? End of
discussion."
On Monday, a US Federal Court Judge dismissed Daniel
Wallace's case
saying "[The GPL] acts as a means by which certain
software may be
copied, modified and redistributed without violating
the software's
copyright protection. As such, the GPL encourages,
rather than
discourages, free competition and the distribution of
computer operating
systems, the benefits of which directly pass to
consumers. These
benefits include lower prices, better access and more
innovation."
Brown continued, "Let us all stop and consider the
consequences of what
this US Federal Judge has said. On being presented
with the facts
surrounding the GPL, he was able to define a range of
benefits available
to those that value the freedoms delivered by the GPL.
The question we
are all left with is, why would anyone put up with the
inferred
consequences of proprietary software?", and, "If you
care about lower
prices, better access to software, or more innovation,
then GPL'd
software is for you. Or as the Free Software would
describe that, you
value freedom".
Having dismissed the case, and finding in favor of the
FSF and against
Wallace. The Judge also allowed FSF costs against
Wallace. Wallace, now
has thirty days to appeal the decision, but the FSF
expects no relevant
news on this matter.
--
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CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES UPHELD IN DUTCH COURT
Submitted by Mia Garlick on 2006-03-16 10:49 AM.
San Francisco, USA, & Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
March 15, 2006
The first known court decision involving a Creative
Commons license
was handed down on March 9, 2006 by the District Court
of Amsterdam.
The case confirmed that the conditions of a Creative
Commons license
automatically apply to the content licensed under it.
The proceedings arose when former MTV VJ and
podcasting guru Adam
Curry published photos of his family on the well-known
online photo-
sharing site Flickr under a Creative Commons
Attribution-
Noncommercial-Sharealike license. The Dutch tabloid
Weekend
reproduced four of the photos in a story about Curry*s
children.
Curry sued Weekend for copyright and privacy
infringement. As to the
copyright claim, Weekend argued that it was misled by
the notice
*this photo is public* (which is a standard feature of
all Flickr
images that are viewable by the public), and that the
link to the CC
license was not obvious. Weekend had assumed that no
authorization
from Curry was needed. Audax, the publisher of
Weekend, argued that
it was informed of the existence of the CC license
only much later by
its legal counsel.
The Court rejected Weekend*s defense, and held as
follows:
*All four photos that were taken from www.flickr.com
were made by
Curry and posted by him on that website. In principle,
Curry owns the
copyright in the four photos, and the photos, by
posting them on that
website, are subject to the [Creative Commons]
License. Therefore
Audax should observe the conditions that control the
use by third
parties of the photos as stated in the License. The
Court understands
that Audax was misled by the notice *This photo is
public* (and
therefore did not take note of the conditions of the
License).
However, it may be expected from a professional party
like Audax that
it conduct a thorough and precise examination before
publishing in
Weekend photos originating from the Internet. Had it
conducted such
an investigation, Audax would have clicked on the
symbol accompanying
the notice *some rights reserved* and encountered the
(short version
of) the License. In case of doubt as to the
applicability and the
contents of the License, it should have requested
authorization for
publication from the copyright holder of the photos
(Curry). Audax
has failed to perform such a detailed investigation,
and has assumed
too easily that publication of the photos was allowed.
Audax has not
observed the conditions stated in the License [*]. The
claim [*] will
therefore be allowed; defendants will be enjoined from
publishing all
photos that [Curry] has published on www.flickr.com,
unless this
occurs in accordance with the conditions of the
License.*
The full text of the decision (in Dutch) is available
here.
http://zoeken.rechtspraak.nl/zoeken/dtluitspraak.asp?searchtype=ljn&lj
n=AV4204&u_ljn=AV4204
*We are very happy with this decision as it
demonstrates that the
millions of creators who use creative commons licenses
are
effectively protected against abuses of their
willingness to
contribute to the commons,* said Paul Keller, Public
Project Lead for
Creative Commons in the Netherlands.
*This decision confirms that the Creative Commons
licensing system is
an effective way for content creators to manage their
copyrights
online,* said Lawrence Lessig, Creative Commons CEO &
Chairman, *The
decision should also serve as a timely reminder to
those seeking to
use content online, to respect the terms that apply to
that content.*
About Creative Commons Netherlands
Creative Commons Netherlands is collaboration between
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Hi Patrons of Arts,
Here is another set beautiful documentaries from
Bangalore Film Society.
Cheers
---arky
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Program For 31st of March and 1st of April
Bangalore Film Society is proud to present the first
edition
of "Present Continuous" a new BFS program which aims
to bring
before you the best in documentary film-making from
around the
world.
Friday 31st March 2006 Time: 6.30 pm
BORN INTO BROTHELS Dir: Zana Briski & Ross
Kauffman
Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in
Sonagachi,
Calcutta and the relationships they developed with
children of women
in prostitution who work the city's red light area.
This film is a
chronicle of filmmakers Zana Briski and Ross
Kauffman's efforts to
look at the world of Calcutta's red light area partly
through
photographs taken by children living in the area. The
film focuses
on the children who are born in the brothels and live
their entire
lives within the damp and dismal walls of Sonagachi
area in Calcutta.
Winner of Oscar for Best Documentary, 2005 and 33
other
international awards. (Re-screened by popular demand)
Saturday 1st April 2006 Time:
6.30 pm
WAY BACK HOME Dir:
Supriyo Sen
Filmmaker Supriyo Sen narrates the story of his
parents who had to
migrate from their small-town in East Bengal, present
day
Bangladesh, to Calcutta (India) after partition of
India in 1947.
After 50 years Sen takes both of them on an emotional
journey back
to their place of birth. During the course of it, they
talk about
their home, their neighbors, their flight and their
new life in
independent India. In this connection, both of them
reveal that they
have physically adjusted their life in Calcutta, yet
they remained
mentally attached to their `Desh'. The film is, on the
one hand, a
remarkable document of modern India's history because
Sen questions
also the rationality of India` partition.
Winner of the Golden Conch at the Mumbai Int'l Film
Fest and the
2003 BBC Audience Award for best documentary at
Manchester's
Commonwealth Film Festival.
Admission: -
Non- Members: - We expect that you will consider
taking up
memberships that will enable you to participate in all
BFS
screenings for a year hence.
OR
For those who seem to linger about on the membership-
a minimum
contribution of Rs. 30/- per movie or Rs. 50/- for
entire screening
will be collected per participant.
Venue:- Centre for Film and Drama (CFD)
Sona Towers,
Miller's Road,
Bangalore.
Ph:- 25492774/ 25492779
Mob:- 9886213516
Email: bfs(a)bgl.vsnl.net.in
Forward the message to anybody you think will be
interested.
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