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French GPL-compatible License
by Wouter Vanden hove 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

"France lends support to new open-source license CeCILL license, compatible with GNU GPL, aims to be better suited for French laws" http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/07/09/HNfrancelendssupport_1.html What does FSFE-supporters think about this? Creative Commons has a strong-copyleft license (Share-Alike) which they are translating and adapting to local laws. Why doesn't FSFEurope adopt a same strategy? Why would European government or public institutions release their own software under a GPL that is only partially valid in many european countries? Wouter Vanden Hove www.vrijschrift.org www.opencursus.org

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Re:
by Xdrudis 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

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Re: Embedded software projects under GPL
by Michael Kallas 09 Jul '04

09 Jul '04

Hi, Alessandro Rubini wrote: > > >> Is there a place to put embedded software including the >> hardware design? Have you heard of http://www.openhardware.net/ ? Maybe that would be an appropriate place. Best wishes Michael

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Embedded software projects under GPL
by Andreas 09 Jul '04

09 Jul '04

Hi, I am currently working on an embedded software project. I like to release it under the GPL if it has left the early stage of implementation. Is there a place to put embedded software including the hardware design? The embedded software is normaly tightly coupled with underlaying hardware. Is it possible to put the hardware design (e.g. schematics) under GPL as well? Thanks, Andreas

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FSF Europe Newsletter
by FSF Europe 06 Jul '04

06 Jul '04

1. Georg Greve in South America 2. Wizards of OS 3. Firenze Tecnologia becomes Patron of FSF Europe 4. Sources-switch, the Italian coordination effort of communities 5. Introducing Matthias Kirschner 6. GNU/Linuxtag in Karlsruhe 7. Strengthening the global Free Software network 8. Demonstration against software patents 9. Introducing the translators team 10. Fundraising campaign 1. Georg Greve in South America Georg Greve continued his visit to South America by taking part in several events in La Plata, Porto Alegre, Sao Paulo and Brasilia. A summary of his most important activities in South America as well as some pictures are available online at http://www.fsfeurope.org/events/2004/FISL/fisl.en.html. 2. Wizards of OS The third "Wizards of OS" conference took place in Berlin from June 10th, 2004 until June 12th, 2004. Georg Greve took part in the WSIS (World Summit on the Information Society) panel. 3. Firenze Tecnologia becomes Patron of FSF Europe To facilitate the technological innovation of the region Toscana and the province of Firenze, Firenze Tecnologia (a company owned by the Chamber of Commerce of Firenze) is investing on Free Software for the technological innovation of the Toscana territory. Firenze Tecnologia has therefore decided to protect their investement financing the work that FSF Europe is doing for defending and promoting Free Software in Europe. It is a very important success for the activities of FSFE, since the donation is included in a wider strategical plan to support innovation, in which Free Software and freedom play a central role. 4. Sources-switch, the Italian coordination effort of communities Too many times our community have faced attacks from outside. Given the growing importance of Free Software in all aspects of life, the members of the main italian associations promoting Free Software have founded a common working group, the "sources switch", aimed at coordination and information exchange. Sofar the associations are Chapter Italy of FSF Europe (FSFE-I), Associazione Software libero (AsSoLi), Italian Linux Society (ILS), ROSPA and the business Consortium Italicum Ratione Soluta (CIRS). The group will provide a framework for promotional events organized by each association, and will define a common strategy to increase effectiveness. Members participate to the works as individuals, but they have agreed to promote the initiatives within their organizations. The group met in Avellino from April 28 through 30; results of the discussions include an initial agenda, setting up of a secretary and a press office, a common position on software patents and open standards, and a schedule for the next meetings. 5. Introducing Matthias Kirschner Matthias Kirschner has joined the FSF Europe team as Georg Greve's Assistant. He will mainly help with administrative tasks such as moderating mailing lists or coordinating the President's numerous appointments. While he currently contributes as a volunteer, he will work as an intern from September 2004 to March 2005. 6. GNU/Linuxtag in Karlsruhe GNU/Linuxtag is one of the major Free Software events in Europe. Like every year, the FSF Europe was present there with a well visited booth. Georg Greve and Bernhard Reiter held speeches on the basic principles of Free Software. 7. Strengthening the global Free Software network The FSF Europe was happy to share it's GNU/Linuxtag booth with several people from outside Europe. Federico Heinz is the president of Via Libre, an Argentinian foundation for Free Software. Hong Feng from China is the publisher of the Free Software Magazine, and Fumitoshi Ukai, Niibe Yutaka, and Takatsugu Nokubi are members of the Free Software Initiative Japan. The possibility to mutually share the experiences was very positive not only for the guests but also for the FSF Europe. 8. Demonstration against software patents More than 1000 people demonstrated against software patents on June 24 in Karlsruhe. Along with several other speakers, Georg Greve expressed his hope that the European Union will not give in under the pressure of the strong lobby pushing for patentability of algorithms. 9. Introducing the translators team With the growing attention the FSF Europe attracts in many countries, the need has arised to build up a flexible, responsive, and well coordinated translator team. Translating and proofreading texts is a precious contribution to the work of the FSF Europe and an excellent chance to spontaneously take part in the activities of the FSF Europe without long-term obligations. You can find more information on: http://www.fsfeurope.org/contribute/translators.en.html 10. Fundraising campaign In order to be able to extend its activities, the FSF Europe has started a fundraising campaign. The web page http://www.fsfeurope.org/news/2004/news-20040701.en.html contains more details. You can find a list of all FSF Europe newsletters on http://www.fsfeurope.org/news/newsletter.en.html

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Join the translators and proofreaders team!
by Reinhard Mueller 29 Jun '04

29 Jun '04

Hi, all, with the growing attention the FSF Europe attracts in many countries, the need has arised to build up a flexible, responsive, and well coordinated translator team. Translating and proofreading texts is a precious contribution to the work of the FSF Europe and an excellent chance to spontaneously take part in the activities of the FSF Europe without long-term obligations. The texts to translate will vary in length between a few lines and a few pages. We have created a mailing list to coordinate our efforts on translations and proofreading. We will exchange original and translated texts over this mailing list, so no special knowledge of systems like CVS is necessary to join the team. You can subscribe to the translators team mailing list at http://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/translators Please also have a look at http://www.fsfeurope.org/contribute/translators.en.html for more information on how we will coordinate our translation efforts. Thanks, -- Reinhard Mueller Free Software Foundation Europe http://www.fsfeurope.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ No army can stop an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo, 1802-1885

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FSMSI 2004 - European seminar on "Free Software for Multimedia Streaming over Internet" - detailed scheduling
by Media Innovation Unit - Firenze Tecnologia 19 Jun '04

19 Jun '04

[ Sorry for cross-posting - feel free to forward around ] ====================================================================== FSMSI 2004 European seminar on Free Software for Multimedia Streaming over the Internet 1st edition June 23/24, 2004 IRCAM, Paris, France http://freesoftware.ircam.fr/fsmsi2004 ====================================================================== SCOPE OF THE SEMINAR The exponential growth of network speed makes it possible to exchange high quality audio and video contents over the Internet, often with real time capabilities. However, multimedia streaming still presents several issues with regards to Free Software and open standards: patents on software and data formats, free codecs availability, standards definitions, etc, etc. The goal of this seminar is to provide an overview of existing Free Software for multimedia streaming over Internet, to envisage future developments and collaborations in this area and to examine the possible ways to fund these developments. SEMINAR PROGRAM Wednesday, June 23: IRCAM, Salle Stravinsky: 9:45-10:00 : François Déchelle (IRCAM) - Introduction 10:00-10:20 : Andrea Glorioso (MIU-FT) - Innovating the Media: why Streaming is important for Free Software (and viceversa) 10:30-11:00 : Olivier Lescurieux (IRCAM) - Interactive multimedia projects at Ircam 11:00-12:00 : Carlo Calabrò (VideoLAN) - The VideoLAN project 12:00-14:00 : Lunch break IRCAM, Salle Olivier Messiaen: 14:00-14:45 : Eric Gressier (CNAM/Cedric) - The distributed concert 15:00-16:00 : Dominique Fober (GRAME) - Clock skew in real-time networking; Wireless performances in regard of music applications 16:00-.... - open Q&A, discussion & hacking session Thursday, June 24: IRCAM, Salle Stravinsky: 10:00-11:00 : Yann Orlarey (GRAME) - Distant Music Rehearsal 11:00-12:00 : Stuart Cunningham, Michael Sparks, Anuradha Suraparaju (BBC R&D) - BBC Research and Development multimedia projects 12:00-13:00 : Juan Carlos De Martin (IEIIT-CNR/Politecnico di Torino) - The Open Media Streaming project 13:00-14:00 : Lunch break IRCAM, Salle Stravinsky: 14:00 - .... : open Q&A, discussion & hacking session ORGANIZATION COMITTEE Francois Déchelle, IRCAM (dechelle(a)ircam.fr) Andrea Glorioso, Media Innovation Unit - Firenze Tecnologia (sama(a)miu-ft.org) SEMINAR STREAMING The presentations will be streamed in OGG/VORBIS format. CONTACTS Web site: http://freesoftware.ircam.fr/fsmsi2004/ Mailing list: freestreaming-paris2004(a)lists.miu-ft.org http://lists.miu-ft.org/mailman/listinfo/freestreaming-paris2004

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Re: EU Communication on the Management of Copyright and Related Rights
by MJ Ray 17 Jun '04

17 Jun '04

The consultation call is on <URL:http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/copyright/management/manageme…> and repeated for the UK at <URL:http://www.patent.gov.uk/copy/notices/2004/eurocomm.htm>. Replies need to be in by 21 June. What are other EU-based free software groups saying about this? I'll copy this to a fsfeurope list. Please reply to -uk for UK specifics, or fsfeurope for other EU states. So, thanks to John we have the two headline points: 1. DRM must not make interop illegal (is this mentioned in the "CEN/ISSS report on DRM standardisation and interoperability"); 2. DRM must not override fair use/fair dealing provisions, or things like the disability discrimination act (need to check EUCD Art5(2)(b) about this). What else do we need to address? Should we include positions on Community-wide licensing, harmonisation of individual rights or collective rights societies? Need to check the references to directives 92/100/EEC and 2001/84/EC. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ for creative copyleft computing Help hack the EuroParl! http://mjr.towers.org.uk/proj/eurovote/

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FFII EU Voters Guide Page
by Seth Johnson 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

EU Voters Take Note: > http://kwiki.ffii.org/ElectPart0405En The above page provides links that may help European Union citizens determine which candidates are most supportive of information freedom. It provides analyses of the Parties in various Member States, and lets you see how the Parties and individual MEPs voted on the Software Patent Directive this past September. In a world of ubiquitous computing, candidates who take an enlightened position on software patents are most likely to understand the profound extent to which unconscionable exclusive rights policies affect our lives and the wellbeing of society. It is not an overstatement to say that the diverse, pervasive effects of policies that allow private parties to lay claim to naked information and abstract knowledge, easily make those policies among the most critical, central issues we face today. For more information on software patents in Europe, start with these links: > http://swpat.ffii.org/log/intro/index.en.html > http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0924/index.en.html > http://kwiki.ffii.org/?Intro040608En Latest news: > http://kwiki.ffii.org/SwpatcninoEn Seth -- DRM is Theft! We are the Stakeholders! New Yorkers for Fair Use http://www.nyfairuse.org [CC] Counter-copyright: http://realmeasures.dyndns.org/cc I reserve no rights restricting copying, modification or distribution of this incidentally recorded communication. Original authorship should be attributed reasonably, but only so far as such an expectation might hold for usual practice in ordinary social discourse to which one holds no claim of exclusive rights.

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Obtaining interface documentation without restrictions
by James Davis 10 Jun '04

10 Jun '04

I've recently bought myself a Nikon D70 digital camera which supports the PTP (ISO 15740) protocol for transferring images from the camera and controlling the hardware. Although basic functionality (transferring images for example) is available through tools such as libptp,gphoto2 and gtkam, the more advanced features are as yet, not supported in Free software. Essentially PTP allows the user to read, and set a number of properties on the camera. The properties are referenced by numerical values ( a subset of which are common to all devices) and not by a descriptive label. According to Nikon's customer support the documentation for this properties is available gratis in the SDK for the D70 and not available separately. The application form for the SDK requires the signing of an NDA which would prevent me from contributing any patches back to gphoto2/gtkam. The SDK contains, besides the documentation, binary libraries which I presume is essentially a PTP client customized for this camera. I'm not particularly concerned by a NDA covering the binaries as I have no absolutely no interest in looking at them or using them but I'd really like use the PTP interface fully in Free software. I could reverse engineer the PTP properties and it wouldn't be too difficult but I'd rather not have to. Has anyone on the list got any recommendations or experience with approaching hardware manufacturers with requests of this type? Regards, James

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