Tag Archives: Free Software Foundation Europe

WIPO SCP/13 – some conclusions

Posted on 29. March, 2009 by Georg Greve

A very productive week of plenary discussions which culminated in Friday’s difficult informal consultations behind closed doors at the SCP/13 demonstrated that WIPO has already come a long way, but a lot remains to be done. In many ways, this … Continue reading →

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Some pointers on European Software Strategy, WIPO and further reading

Posted on 15. March, 2009 by Georg Greve

It’s been one of “those” months. Again. First and foremost, the European Software Strategy has taken up a lot of time and energy for myself and others in FSFE. Having been invited to contribute our expertise to the process of … Continue reading →

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Catching up with the backblog

Posted on 9. February, 2009 by Georg Greve

As you will have noticed, FSFE had some issues with its previous blogging platform. In theory, they should have been resolved much earlier, but as Yogi Berra correctly stated: “In theory, there is no difference between practice and theory. In … Continue reading →

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Free Software ecosystem changes: SUN announcing Java under GPLv2 and FTF

Posted on 13. November, 2006 by Georg Greve

November 2006 might be remembered as a deciding month for Free Software: Novell and Microsoft agree that Novell should pay Microsoft for every single SuSE distribution they sell, a deal that is potentially in conflict with the GNU General Public … Continue reading →

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Debian: GNU FDL without invariant sections is Free

Posted on 12. March, 2006 by Georg Greve

Ever since it was first released there was a very controversial discussion about the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) by some people of the Debian Project. The escalation did not end before some people repeatedly asked to remove all DFSG … Continue reading →

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