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Workshop on translation/adaptation to French of the GNU GPL
during the Libre Software Meeting
FSF France
Press release, for immediate release
Paris, France - Tuesday, June 19, 2001 - A workshop is going
to happen during the Libre Software
Meeting (Bordeaux, France - from July 4 to July 8, 2001) as part
of the theme ""Law,
Economy, Politics and Free Software", which will permit every
people involved with the translation/adaptation effort of GNU GPL to French to
meet and discuss together.
More than two months after its creation, the FSF France (along with its
associated organizations) has been working to initiate the fundamental
activities which will permit to reach the common objectives of the FSF
and the FSF Europe --- to provide Free Software to anybody for any use
and to protect the
existence of Free Software whenever it faces a threat.
In the frame of the licenses, protecting the GNU GPL is only a matter
of using good language and legal formulations. There is no need to
revise nor modify the concepts or the basis of the licenses. The
translation/adaptation effort has already begun in
France.
For the LSM, the FSF France is pleased to announce that, as part of
the theme "Law, Economy, Politics and Free Software", two work
sessions will take place on Friday, July
6, 2001 about the translation/adaptation of the GNU GPL to the
French legal system with the attending of Professor Eben Moglen (Professor of
Law and Legal History at Columbia Law School, general attorney of the
FSF and co-author of the GNU GPL), of Mélanie Clément-Fontaine
(Phd student in Intellectual Property Rights, author of a study of the GNU GPL and
responsible for the adaptation project for the FSF France), of Dan
Ravicher (attorney involved with the legal aspects of Free Software,
see interview on Slashdot), and of members of the CNRS.
References
About the FSFEurope - Chapter France (FSFE France)
The FSF Europe - Chapter France is the French chapter of the Free
Software Foundation Europe, a sister organization of the Free
Software Foundation that was created in 1985 by Richard M. Stallman in
the United States.
The main goal of the FSF Europe is to manage the different Free
Software initiatives around Europe, to provide a center of competence
about Free Software for politicians and journalists, and to provide an
infrastructure for the Free Software projects and for the GNU Project
in particular.
More informations related to the FSF Europe can be found at:
http://fsfeurope.org.
More informations regarding the FSF Europe - Chapter France can be
found at : http://fsffrance.org. You
can contact us by mail at bonjour@fsffrance.org
Media Contact :
Frédéric Couchet, President. E-mail : FredericCouchet@fsffrance.org.
Phone : +33 6 60 68 89 31
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