French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software

Sun Dec 4 13:22:52 UTC 2005

Jerome Dominguez wrote:

>25 November 2005. FSF France press release. Friday November 18th, 2005, French Department of Culture.
>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.
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>URL: http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html 
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xenophobia to the last consequences...

[]s, gandhi

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