Five things for the agenda. If anyone has additions, please add them. See yous tomorrow.
* Patents - recent request from the Commission [0] http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/fsfe-ie/2006-May/002505.html
* Another commission consultation - deadline June 15th http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/strategy/docs/consultation_en.pdf
* Federico event roundup Recordings are online, but transcripts aren't ready yet: http://www.ifso.ie/events/2006-04-29/
* What's the next event? [2] We have two proposals. First is an FSFLA (maybe with FSFE) event: http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/fsfe-ie/2006-March/002465.html
Second is a licencing (plus GPLv3) event - as discussed at the AGM.
* GPLv3
I'd like to add:
*Licensing content on IFSO website (following previous email correspondance)
*IFSO membership database
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Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
Five things for the agenda. If anyone has additions, please add them. See yous tomorrow.
Patents - recent request from the Commission [0] http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/fsfe-ie/2006-May/002505.html
Another commission consultation - deadline June 15th http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/strategy/docs/consultation_en.pdf
Federico event roundup Recordings are online, but transcripts aren't ready yet: http://www.ifso.ie/events/2006-04-29/
What's the next event? [2] We have two proposals. First is an FSFLA (maybe with FSFE) event: http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/fsfe-ie/2006-March/002465.html
Second is a licencing (plus GPLv3) event - as discussed at the AGM.
GPLv3
teresahackett@eircom.net writes:
I'd like to add:
*Licensing content on IFSO website (following previous email correspondance)
*IFSO membership database
Ok. I also have two more additions.
Mario Bonilla of FSF Latin America will be coming along to get to know the Irish community - which brings to 4 the number of FSFLA committee members we'll have had contact with.
And Shane Coughlan will be coming and he's interested in doing some business orientated talk or event, so lets discuss that. He did a free software talk at the recent ICT Expo, and he did it well by all accounts.
GPLv3
Actually, a thought on this topic did pop into my head. I've been trying out (and liking) rockbox on my digital audio player:
I gather that several manufacturers claim you void your warranty if you install non-official firmware. From their perspective, a modified version could cause hardware to fail. For example, by overclocking the CPU to an unacceptable degree, or mismanaging the battery.
Let's imagine that a manufacturer decided to use rockbox as their firmware. No doubt the release they use with their device will have undergone some degree of code auditing and testing. So should they be obliged to cover me if I've make changes to their "official" release of the firmware?
Now for good reason (Freedom 1), GPLv3 (as I understand it) is meant to stop manufacturers from signing Free Software binaries in such a way that users can't run modified versions. But does it (and should it) also prevent them from determining whether a device has had modified firmware installed on it?
Hmmm...
Malcolm.
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