"Yesterday’s links" will be "Links" from now on. That leaves room for the title to be more descriptive: EU proposal to extend copyright suffers big setback. GNU software releases for December 2007. Firemacs, a Firefox addon to make it use Emacs keybindings for editing text. EU consultation on "Creative Content Online", open until February 29th. Read more »
Some interesting things: The BBC’s iPlayer Goes to Parliament, by Sean Daly with *lots* of links to more info on this DRM issue. I Wouldn’t Steal, an EU-level campaign to highlight that copying music is not the same as stealing handbags or shoplifting, by the European Green Party. Slashdot story asking about free software DRM, Read more »
Although quiet, the consultation for drafting the next version of the GNU Free Documentation Licence, plus the new GNU Simpler Free Documentation License, are still ongoing: http://gplv3.fsf.org/doclic-dd1-guide.html The online draft of GFDLv2 still has Invariant Sections. The proposed GSFDL is a documentation licence without Invariant Sections. I don’t have information about the timeline for the Read more »