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xyz
December 10th, 2005, 07:27 AM
Friday November 18th, 2005, French Department of Culture. SNEP and SCPP have told Free Software authors: "You will be required to 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 proposal pass in the Parliament.
http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html
Sign the petition if you will http://eucd.info/petitions/index.php?petition=2&signe=oui
What do you guys/gals have to say about that?

GeneralZod
December 10th, 2005, 07:32 AM
This! ;)

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=98337