"Recently, the Wikimedia Foundation proposed that the copyright licensing terms on its wikis be changed to include a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license in addition to its longstanding GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). The proposal was approved by a 75 percent majority of community voters as announced this week..."
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Report: Cisco and FSF settle
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According to the New Media & Technology Law Blog, the FSF legal action against Cisco, filed in December 2008 has been settled.
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Copyleft and the War on Sharing
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"FSF's John Sullivan will talk about copyleft, copyright, the War on Sharing, and the GNU/Linux free software operating system at the Connecticut Film Festival." -- via Copyleft and the War on Sharing - Free Software Foundation
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Why open source needs the RIAA to lose
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THE FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION (FSF) has been one of the surprise backers of people who the RIAA thinks should pay massive fines for sharing copyrighted music files online.
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War on Sharing: RIAA moves to block new FSF court brief
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"Yesterday, while we were publishing our response to the RIAA's recent attack on the merit of organizations who represent the public's interest filing informative briefs in cases that threaten to negatively affect the public's interest, the RIAA was attacking us again.
Read more »Intern at the FSF
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"This is an opportunity to work for the organization that sponsors the GNU project, publishes the GNU General Public License (GPL), and fights for software freedom..."
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The War on Sharing: Why the FSF Cares About RIAA Lawsuits
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"In one of RIAA’s high profile cases the Free Software Foundation backed defendant Joel Tenenbaum, much to the dislike of the music industry lobby. John Sullivan, Operations Manager at the FSF explains in a guest post why they think these cases impact not just music, but also free software and its technology..."
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The Free Software Foundation spreads the Free Software Pact Initiative
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"The Free Software Foundation spreads the Free Software Pact Initiative by putting a link up on the front page of FSF web site and GNU website..."
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FSF launches new free software activist internship program
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The FSF is offering a number of new educational opportunities for students to come work at its Boston headquarters, helping out with campaign and community organizing, programming, free software licensing, and more. Applications for the first term are due May 25.
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ESP launches en.swpat.org: A Wiki for Anti-Software Patent Campaigns
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"Monday, May 4th, 2009 — End Software Patents today launched en.swpat.org, a wiki to document the case against software patents. Over 100 articles have already been started to give an idea of the scope and structure of the wiki..."
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Patents, Protests, Plebiscites, and Protecting your freedom
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"When he attended a rally in Munich this month, Richard Stallman took time out of his busy schedule to talk with our News Editor, Britta Wülfing. The conversation covered everything from Software as a Service, to patents, protests, international politics, and protecting your freedom...
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GNU Toolchain Update, April 2009
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"Well this has been a very active month. The wording for the exception to the GPLv3 was finally settled with the FSF and so almost all of the remaining GPLv2 files in the GCC source tree have now been updated. This has also meant that the gcc 4.4 branch now generated a full release..."
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Red Hat EMEA Partner Summit 2009, Malta
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"I'm on my way back home from Red Hat's EMEA Partner Summit in Malta, the second annual partner summit in EMEA, while I'm writing this.
Read more »Free Software Supporter -- Issue 13, April 2009
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* Version 2.2 of gNewSense released
* FSF releases audio recording of LibrePlanet conference
* Winners of the annual free software awards announced!
* Help spring the Javascript Trap
* European Elections and the Free Software Pact
* Can you help the Open Graphics Project?
* Nintendo DSi: Defective by DESiGN
* Join Amazon authors' "drmfree" effort
gNewSense 2.2 released
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The gNewSense project today announced version 2.2 of its free GNU/Linux distribution. This is the second point update to the release codenamed 'deltah'.
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