I recorded my talk "GPL: what can v3 improve?" at aKademy 2006 on my digital camera. Below is a video and the timeline of the talk. I still need practice at public speaking, but I’m getting better. I’m good enough to be a discussion starter for certain FSFE issues, but I should say at the Read more »
It’s just been announced that the 5th international GPLv3 conference will be held on November 21 and 22, in Akihabara UDX Conference Room A+B, Tokyo, Japan. The international conferences are part of the year-long effort to maximise awareness of the proposed changes and to solicit input from as many people as possible. The four previous Read more »
I’ve made a transcript of Richard Stallman’s talk at the recent 4th international GPLv3 conference in Bangalore, India. I would really appreciate some help with spreading this transcript around to websites, mailing lists, and forums of the community. A mainstream news website has published a shockingly FUD-filled article, so it’s important that some intelligent information Read more »
The 4th International GPLv3 Conference, organised by FSFI, is taking place on the 23rd and 24th of August in Bangalore, India. I hope it goes well. The 3rd was in Europe. This will be the first conference where the 2nd draft of GPLv3 will be discussed. The public comment period has been open for a Read more »
A Newsforge journalist contacted the GPLv3 discussion committees to ask if they are being listened to by FSF, and if the 2nd draft of GPLv3 includes they’re input. All who responded said yes to both. Here’s the story: Torvalds’ comments on GPLv3 committees refuted. The reason for that title is that Linus Torvalds said last Read more »
FSF have put online draft 2, plus a draft of LGPLv3, and a new rationale document. So whats changed? Here’s a… Wdiff of draft 1 and draft 2 and a Wdiff of GPLv2 and draft 2
In the Q+A session after a recent talk by Alan Cox in Limerick, he was asked for his thoughts on GPLv3. Below is a transcript of his off-the-cuff reply, and then my comments. His comments were quite positive. The only issue he raised was that draft 1’s wording for thwarting DRM was a bit heavy-handed. Read more »
I was really glad that a Fellow of FSFE living in Brussels, Sean Daly, was able to come down to the GPLv3 conference and record the whole thing with his camera. The content is important and high quality, and the goal of this conference was to spread information, so it would have been a terrible Read more »
Last week was the GPLv3 conference, and right now I’m at GUADEC, both of which were in the provence of Barcelona. The GPLv3 conference, in Barcelona city, went really well and the whole thing was recorded on video by Sean Daly. Raw audio should be ready by Friday, so some of us will start working Read more »
Everything’s in place for the conference this Thursday. If you’d like to gives some last-few-days help by informing others that this is happening and will be great, you could use the text from FSFE’s announcement: http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/announce/2006-June/000082.html . Here’s the programme: June 22nd programme: presentations: Time Thursday, June 22nd 10:00 Registration of participants 10:30 Georg Greve: Read more »