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Hallo!
I would like to inform you that our UK Team has just published an open
letter to British Telecom regarding their plans for a new music
download service. FSFE asks them to make user freedom one of the
product's key features.
You can read more at http://fsfe.org/projects/os/bt-open-letter.en.html.
Regards,
Natalia
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Natalia Evdokimova - Intern, Assistant to the President
Free Software Foundation Europe (http://fsfe.org)
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Hi,
I'm looking for a GPL-licensed SIP client for MacOS to suggest to my
friends.
I've found "Blink" [1], which, according to Wikipedia is licensed
under GPLv3 [2].
Does anyone know this tool or has any experience with it?
Thanks,
Pb
== References:
[1] http://icanblink.com/download.phtml
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(software)
Hey all,
at the moment I mail web application developers to license their code
freely. Now I have a (probably easy) question regarding license
compatibility:
A developer wants to release his application as MIT/X11. It uses the Dojo
toolkit which is licensed as modified BSD (or Academic Free License 2.1).
Is this possible? The third clause of the modified BSD seems to prevent that:
»Neither the name of the <organization> nor the names of its contributors
may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
without specific prior written permission.«
Thanks in advance. :)
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Jan-Christoph Borchardt
http://libreprojects.net
Hi to anybody in the Netherlands, there is a GNOME 3 release party tonight
at the Revelation Hackerspace in Den Haag.
Starts at 7pm, everyone is welcome. There will be demos, people and beer!
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:56 PM, William from Texas <
williamfromtexas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Not from Slovakia, but a regional call might be fun: I'm in the
> Netherlands.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Dominik Smatana <dominik(a)fsfe.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm just curious if there are some people from Slovakia on this list? :)
>>
>> Regards
>> Dominik Smatana
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>> Discussion(a)fsfeurope.org
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>
>
On Deceber 2010 the european commission published a call for tender
of the value of 200K EUR to help reducing the risk of proprietary
technology lock-in practices in public procurement:
Investigate the current public procurement practices in the EU and
Member States (also at regional and municipal level) and provide
recommendations for the type of help that the public procurers need
in order to be able to procure ICT that promotes efficiency and reduces
vendor lock-in by referring to standards. The study is part of the
implementation of 'Digital Agenda for Europe, action 23'.
Here's the tender details:
http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:67447-2011:TEXT:EN:HTML
Call is open till April 15 2011, with April 8 being last possible date
for requesting more documents on the matter.
--strk;
() Free GIS & Flash consultant/developer
/\ http://strk.keybit.net/services.html
Hi all,
A friend of mine sent me a link to this article (in French):
http://www.rue89.com/2011/03/18/tunisie-microsoft-complice-de-la-censure-nu…
which accuses Microsoft of helping dictatorships to spy on their people
(too generous state SSL root kits in Internet Explorer).
The only article in English that I could find on the subject is the
following:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2138565
I don't think we can really take advantage of this news by publishing it
further, still I wanted to share it with you and get your impressions.
Thanks,
Nico
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Free Software Foundation Europe (http://fsfe.org)
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Document Freedom Day 2011! http://documentfreedom.org
Today it was announced that the Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet) and the
Conservative Party (Høyre) partnered in getting the legislation
concerning the EUs Data Retention Directive passed in Norwegian
parliament (Stortinget).
Translated URL from a big newspaper here:
<http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&…>
In this context “DLD” means “data retention directive”. “Ap” is the
Labour Party. “PST” means the Secret State Police in Norway. “ICT” is
an organization for telecom operators.
Some highlights:
> Erna Solberg do not think it's a letdown when the Conservatives for
> once was able to pass on a suggestion from the Labour Party, they
> would rather go into partnership with them.
>
> - No, this is a huge victory for the Conservatives, and we have
> received approval for a lot. Moreover, the data will be stored
> securely so that it will not be possible to hackers in the data, said
> the Conservative leader.
Some concrete facts:
> * The general rule is that there should be a minimum four year
> sentence for using the data, but five years for location data. But
> there are some exceptions, including for drug crimes. It means that
> in theory the sale of cannabis lead to use of stored traffic data.
>
> Anne Marie Bjørnflaten of Labor states that it should be "necessity
> and proportionality" that the court may disclose the data.
>
> * PST will still be able to get data in preventive work, without
> anything concrete.
Also:
> * There need be no suspicion against a specific person to collect your
> telecommunications and internet data. It holds that you are near.
> This meant the police have been important, for example, investigate
> the murder cases without a suspect.
>
> * Private could theoretically gain access on strict criteria to use in
> a civil trial.
19.000 people had signed the petition against the directive (a sizable
number of people considering our country's size). This was however not
enough to convince politicians to stop the directive. Government
partner parties of the Labour Party; the Socialistic Left Party and
Centre Party disagrees and will vote against the implementation of the
EU directive (that is, for a veto), but the Labour and Conservative
Parties have the majority combined. This is, indeed, a very odd
constellation.
This is a sad day for privacy in Norway. When it is implemented, I
would recommend using encryption and routing when using the internet in
Norway.