French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software

Ben Finney ben at benfinney.id.au
Wed Nov 30 22:19:41 UTC 2005


On 30-Nov-2005, Jerome Dominguez wrote:
> SNEP and SCPP tell Free Software authors: "You shall change your
> licenses." SACEM add: "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"[1] bill pass in the Parliament.
> 
> URL: http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html 

What action can be taken by French citizens? By other people? How soon
must action be taken?

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