“Group looking into legal, funding, patent issues around
projects such as Apache, Linux and EROS.“
“The European Commission has received a report from a team
assigned to investigate the phenomenon of free software and come up
with recommendations on what funding the European Community should
provide for open source ventures.”
“The European Working Group on Libre Software has been appointed
to analyse the issues surrounding the open source movement or
“libre software” as it refers to it. Libre means free speech in
French and the group feels that this more accurately defines the
idea of open source than the term “free software.”