Good evening all!
It's late at night here in Zurich and I decided to write a little message to everyone about the Freedom Task Force (FTF) [1].
The FTF is a project in Free Software Foundation Europe to help people with licensing matters in the European area. It's got a full-time coordinator (that's me), a network of legal and technical experts, and a volunteer list for people to help out [2].
The FTF focuses on three things: Licence education Fiduciary activity Licensing enforcement
We officially launched the project recently [3] and we have been helping individuals, projects and businesses with various matters around Free Software licensing issues. One of the most interesting events was the signing of the Fiduciary License Agreement with the Bacula Project [4]. This enables FSFE to act as the legal guardian for Bacula.
I'd really appreciate if you could help spread the word about the FTF. Tell projects. Blog. Spread the word at your LUG.
Meanwhile, if you have any questions regarding Free Software licensing please drop me a line. The best way to get quick answers is to submit questions to ftf@fsfeurope.org because then the data will go directly onto our tracker.
Regards
Shane
[1] http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/ftf/ [2] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/ftf-discussion [3] http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2006q4/000159.html [4] http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2006q4/000161.html