Discussion November 2006

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Internet Governance Forum launched in Athens
by MJ Ray 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Georg Greve's mugshot was smiling out from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-love/the-un-launches-the-inter_b_33498.… about the launch of the Internet Governance Forum, so I headed over to http://www.fsfe.org/en/fellows/greve/freedom_bits/internet_governance_forum… and from there to http://www.intgovforum.org/ through a couple of links (please stop setting target="_blank" on FSFE sites - if I want a new window, I'll open one.) I find it rather hard to read the low-contrast (=>WCAG-AAA-failing) www.intgovforum.org, so I override stylesheets and may be missing some detail, but I get the impression that it's the "big bad" businesses that dominate topics of main common interest to FSFE supporters - Google, Sun, Microsoft, ... - and friendly businesses are few and far between. Is that accurate? In short, will IGF fare better than WSIS? I'm asking some questions about representation and access directly, but if anyone knows a "getting involved in IGF" link, please post it. Thanks for reading this ramble, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Somerset, England. Work/Laborejo: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ IRC/Jabber/SIP: on request/peteble

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Re: Adobe make Flash scripting Free Software with Mozilla Foundation
by Sean DALY 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

> Message du 07/11/06 15:03 > De : "Ciaran O'Riordan" <ciaran(a)fsfe.org> > A : discussion(a)fsfeurope.org > > That's very good news. > I understand the IRC chat below scheduled for today will provide an opportunity to discuss this. http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2006/11/02/developer-chat-wi…

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Re: Adobe make Flash scripting Free Software with Mozilla Foundation
by Sean DALY 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Ciaran - the Mozilla license policy says GPL or any later version (see section heading "Acceptable Licenses": http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/license-policy.html - Sean > Message du 07/11/06 14:41 > De : "Ciaran O'Riordan" <ciaran(a)fsfe.org> > A : discussion(a)fsfeurope.org > Copie à : > Objet : Re: Adobe make Flash scripting Free Software with Mozilla Foundation > > > "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams(a)gnu.org> writes: > > From the looks (FAQ, headers in the source code), the code that was > > released is tripple licensed (MPL, GPL, and LGPL), so konqueror can > > use that code, same for Gnash. > > And when Gnash moves to GPLv3? > > Is the code that will be freed to be distrubted under "v2 or any later > version" of the GPL? > > > -- > Ciarán O'Riordan __________________ \ http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3 > http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _________ \ GPLv3 and other work supported by > http://fsfe.org/fellows/ciaran/weblog \ Fellowship: http://www.fsfe.org > _______________________________________________ > Discussion mailing list > Discussion(a)fsfeurope.org > https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion > >

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Google Code Hosting
by Simon Morris 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Hello, I am about to take over maintainership of a small project (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) ;-) and I'm wondering where is best to host it. I know that there were some "freedom" problems with Sourceforge in recent history but I can't find any reference to it. I was sure there was some mention of it on gnu.org. Are these concerns still valid and what are peoples thoughts on hosting code with Googles new software project hosting service? Thanks ~sm

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Apple drops the 'Trusted Platform Module'
by Shane M. Coughlan 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Hi guys It's interesting that Apple has dropped the 'Trusted Platform Module'. http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/01/apple_drops_trusted_.html I think this might be a pretty big deal. It was a little unexpected for me, as I thought Apple and Intel had formed a close partnership. Intel, AFAIK, are pushing TPM. Regards Shane

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gNewSense 1.0 - a binary blobless free software GNU/Linux - seeks help too
by Ciaran O'Riordan 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

gNewSense 1.0 is now online: http://www.gnewsense.org/ It's an Ubuntu-based distro with the non-free bit scraped out. Here's the release announcement: http://www.fsf.org/news/gnewsense Developers, documenters, and a userbase are sought. The current devs can usually be found on #gnewsense on irc.freenode.net -- Ciarán O'Riordan __________________ \ http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3 http://ciaran.compsoc.com/ _________ \ GPLv3 and other work supported by http://fsfe.org/fellows/ciaran/weblog \ Fellowship: http://www.fsfe.org

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[potentially OT] UN resolutions in opaque PDF format
by David Picon Alvarez 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Hi, I study international public law and I recently had to check out some UN resolutions. It turns out that they are in PDF format, not in html or plain text, and the PDFs do not contain text but only pixels. This is very unfortunate from several points of view, although the most obvious one is accessibility. I don't know whether FSFE is the right forum to raise this up, but, after telling me "the world is mine" it's a bit unfortunate I can't read the resolutions in question. --David.

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