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Current Newswire: Mailing Lists Are Parties. Or They Should Be. Project: Building An All-Text Linux Workstation Cool: Or Hot? Linux really making your coffee, live a linux coffee machine Editor's Note: All This Great Technology Just to Reinvent Television Kubuntu is not Ubuntu Claws Mail: Mail with Attitude SimplyMEPIS 8.5 RC3 Is Here, the Final Release Candidate Ten Years of OpenOffice.org OpenOffice.org Project of the Month: the Irish community Intel Atom: NVIDIA ION vs. Radeon HD 4330 Graphics Systems Engineer Sr - Solaris - Linux (TX) Next Step Systems US-TX-Houston Post A Job | Post A Resume FSF France: French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software Dec 5, 2005, 14 :30 UTC (12 Talkback[s]) (13852 reads) "[On] Friday November 18th, 2005, French Department of Culture. SNEP and SCPP... told Free Software authors: 'You will be required to change your licenses.' SACEM add[ed]: 'You shall stop publishing free software,' and warn they are ready 'to sue free software authors who will keep on publishing source code' should the 'VU/SACEM/BSA/FA Contents Department' bill proposal pass in the Parliament. "It appears that publishing Free Software giving access to culture is about to become a counterfeiting criminal offence. Will SACEM sue France Télécom R&D research labs for having published Maay and Solipsis (P2P pieces of software used to exchange data)..." Complete Story Complete Story (Français) Related Stories: PC Advisor: Open-Source Software Gaining in Europe(Oct 21, 2005) PR: Mandrakesoft, French Ministry of Education and Research Enter Agreement(Mar 02, 2005) PC Pro: Microsoft Loses China Contract At Last Minute(Nov 29, 2004) CIO Magazine: French Eye Open Source, e-Government Savings(Nov 02, 2004) Index Mode   |   Flat Mode   |   Thread Mode   |   Thread Flat     Talkback(s) Name  and Date   Unsurprising    wsd Dec 5, 2005, 14:41:33     Article unclear and incomplete    David McGuire Dec 5, 2005, 16:04:34     Re: Unsurprising    George Dec 5, 2005, 16:07:40     Any better explanation of what this means?    RGB Dec 5, 2005, 17:11:12     Re: Re: Unsurprising    Daniel McCarthy Dec 5, 2005, 17:31:10     Re: Re: Unsurprising    Ed Dec 5, 2005, 17:54:30     Would anyone know...    Ken Jennings Dec 5, 2005, 18:24:19     Re: Re: Unsurprising    Kevin Dec 5, 2005, 19:17:31     Article is misleading    Mantar Dec 5, 2005, 22:44:19     more information    Eduardo Dec 6, 2005, 02:33:31     Re: Re: Re: Unsurprising    Simon Dec 6, 2005, 03:20:03     Re: Re: Re: Unsurprising    a.c. Dec 7, 2005, 23:15:15     Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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