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News Stallman is president of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and wrote the most widely used open-source licence, GPL, now in version 3. Free-software advocate Richard Stallman has spoken out against the association of... [10 Jun 2008]
FSF slams Microsoft OOXML standards vote tactics
News The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has accused Microsoft of "stuffing the ballot boxes" in a vote designed to establish Office Open XML as a recognised industry standard. Speaking to silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK, FSFE... [31 Aug 2007]
Lawyer: Microsoft can evade GPL 3
News Kay Lam-Beattie, principal with intellectual property lawyers Idealaw, said that based on the limited information available to the public, the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) efforts to hinder Microsoft's bullying over... [26 Jul 2007]
MySQL puts off automatic move to GPL 3
News The Free Software Foundation (FSF) last year launched an initial draft of the GPL version 3, the licence used by thousands of open source products, including the Linux operating system. He wrote: "MySQL AB continues to... [05 Jan 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Open source licences
Cheat Sheet The Free Software Foundation (FSF), for instance, has its own criteria for what should be considered 'free software' - and it's not necessarily the same as open source. You can read more about the FSF... [20 Nov 2006]
Anti-DRM day to debut next month
News Organised by DefectiveByDesign.org, a sub-group of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), Anti-DRM day will involve a "worldwide day of action… to raise the stakes and attempt to increase awareness to the threats of DRM". [04 Sep 2006]
Linux leader attacks "anti-DRM" GPL
News The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is in the process of revising the GPL, a seminal document that not only governs thousands of open source projects but also functions as the constitution of the free software movement. [06 Feb 2006]
I won't convert Linux to GPL 3, says Torvalds
News On the other side of the divide is Richard Stallman, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Stallman and FSF attorney, Eben Moglen, wrote in a GPL 3 background article: "The... [27 Jan 2006]
GPLv3 gets public airing
News Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), proposed changes to the General Public Licence (GPL) at a public forum on Tuesday but made clear that provisions to protect users from patent litigations... [18 Jan 2006]
Open source overhaul: GPLv3 on the way
News The FSF plans several milestones in the revision process after the release of the public draft. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) will release and describe the first public draft of version 3 of the... [12 Jan 2006]
Microsoft still facing long list of legal woes
News FSF Europe says it is "worried that the loopholes in the [EU's March 2004] decision can be exploited by Microsoft's lawyers". Most prominent is the European Union's ongoing pursuit of Microsoft through the courts. [12 Oct 2005]
Patent bullies may face GPL 3 penalty clause
News GPL version 3, a draft of which will be released in January 2006, may contain a patent retaliation clause, Georg Greve, the president of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Europe, said on Tuesday. Joachim Jakobs from... [07 Sep 2005]
Bush's man in Europe slammed as Microsoft ally
News The European branch of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has criticised President Bush's decision to nominate a long-time ally of Microsoft as the US representative to the European Union. Georg Greve, the president of... [08 Aug 2005]
Europe mulls IP rights law for software
News The European branch of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was also worried SCO could use the directive to its advantage. Joachim Jakobs from FSF Europe said not only might company managers face being... [02 Aug 2005]
EU turns down Microsoft's antitrust remedy
News Carlo Piana, a partner at Milan law firm Tamos Piana & Partners, which represents the Free Software Foundation Europe, said the Commission has echoed the FSF's concerns on the matter. The European Commission has rejected... [21 Mar 2005]
