French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software

Jerome Dominguez taz at gnu.org
Wed Nov 30 22:37:31 UTC 2005


On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:19:41AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> 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?

I'm afraid that only French citizens can do something. The EUCD.INFO initiative proposes
some actions : http://www.eucd.info/agir 

The EUCD.INFO initiative was launched by FSF France.

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