Nov 10

Richard Stallman i Göteborg

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I dag talade FSF:s Richard Stallman på Chalmers i Göteborg. Det var både intressant och underhållande, även om jag tyvärr missade början.

I morgon drar FSCONS officiellt igång. Själv ska jag börja med att gå på en workshop om “Basic Data Security“.

rms signing books

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May 24

Intervju med Richard Stallman

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IDG har publicerat en lång intervju med Richard Stallman: Om befrielsen av cyberspace – ett samtal med Richard Stallman. Artikeln är på svenska men tyvärr känns språket lite stelt så jag antar att någon haft bråttom att översätta.

Feb 10

GPLv3 Video Online

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The FSF have now put video from the GPLv3 conference online. Grab the torrent and watch Stallman and Moglen explain the first draft of GPLv3 (OGG Theora video)

I have just downloaded it and I look forward to watching the “full walk-through of the new license text by Eben Moglen, FSF general counsel and founder of the Software Freedom Law Center” tomorrow.

Feb 8

Stallman on Creative Commons

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In an interview with LinuxP2P, Richard Stallman discusses some problems with the Creative Commons licenses.

Some Creative Commons licenses are free licenses; most permit at least noncommercial verbatim copying. But some, such as the Sampling Licenses and Developing Countries Licenses, don’t even permit that, which makes them unacceptable to use for any kind of work. All these licenses have in common is a label, but people regularly mistake that common label for something substantial.

He has a point, you know. I agree that the mentioned licenses are definitely non-free and, even if I would perhaps not go as far as saying that they are “unacceptable to use for any kind of work”, I can’t see a situation where I would use them.

Stallman also points to a real problem when he points out that far too many people don’t look “behind” the CC logo. The basic “Creative Commons License” is actually six very different licenses and there there are a few special licenses, like sampling and developing nations. To just say that something is CC licensed is not very informative. (related old rant)

This is now also on Slashdot