Stallman on draft 2 of GPLv3
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 reach the computer using public.
The transcript is as: http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/bangalore-rms-transcript and below are links to the sections in the transcript.
- The presentation
- Internationalisation
- Patents – a promise not to sue
- Patent retaliation
- Tivoisation and DRM
- Licence compatibility
- Audience question on the goals of the GPL
- Back to compatibility
- BitTorrent
- Distribution by Internet
- Termination
- Q1: Using the gpl for non software works
- Q2: Why not a broader patent retaliation
- Q3: Linux, Linus
- Q4: Did Linux help GNU
- Eben Moglen explains the DRM changes
- Q5: Freedom and thin clients
- Note: About "intellectual property"
- Q6: Affero and web services
- Q7: Freedom may require inconvenience
- Q8: Free Software needs to be made easier
- Q9: A comment about the download change
- Q10: Mechanically defining infringement
UPDATE: When I originally posted this, there were 15 minutes left to transcribe. I’ve done that now and added questions 7 to 10 to the above list of section titles.