[cc-br] Brazil to host the 2nd International Conference on GPLv3

Omar Kaminski kaminski at fgv.br
Fri Feb 24 10:13:43 EST 2006


http://www.fsf.org/news/gplv3brazil

Brazil to host the 2nd International Conference on GPLv3

Porto Alegre, Brazil - April 21st & 22nd.

BOSTON - February 21, 2006 - The 2nd international GPLv3 conference will 
take place on April 21st & 22nd in Porto Alegre, Brazil.  The international 
GPLv3 conferences are part of a year-long public consultation process to 
update GNU General Public License ("the GPL") which today protects the 
freedom of 100s of millions of software users and is the most used Free 
Software license in the world.

The conference will take place during the 7th International Free Software 
Forum, which takes place from April 19th to the 22nd.

Like the current GPL, version 3 will work to guarantee that all users of 
software distributed under its terms have the freedom to examine, share, and 
modify that software.

Version 2 of the GPL was released in 1991.  It is now being updated to 
account for changes in the legal and technical environment in which software 
licenses operate, and to protect against new threats to the freedoms of 
software users such as software patents and Digital Restrictions Management 
(DRM).

The new version will also incorporate what has been learned over the last 15 
years about enforcing a single software license in varying legal systems 
around the world, and with the 2nd international GPLv3 conference, the 
current draft of GPL version 3 will receive particular scrutiny from lawyers 
and software users of Latin America.  A main goal of these conferences is to 
get input from free software users in all parts of the world.

The main changes in the text are those which would make GPLv3 compatible 
with other Free Software licenses.  That is to say that programmers will be 
able to combine GPLv3-covered code with code distributed under some other 
Free Software licenses which version 2 would have prohibited.

We invite you join us at FISL for the second round of presentations and 
discussions, with both international and Latin American perspectives.

Confirmed speakers include Richard Stallman, founder and president of Free 
Software Foundation (FSF), who will introduce the new draft, and Richard 
Fontana, lawyer at Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), who will provide 
legal interpretation.  Expert panelists form across Latin America will lead 
discussion on license internationalization, DRM, software patents, and 
license compatibility.

The Conference's schedule and further information will be published soon at
http://gplv3.fsf.org/wiki/index.php/International_conferences

About the Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting 
computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer 
programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) 
software - particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux 
variants - and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to 
spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use 
of software. Their Web site, located at www.fsf.org , is an important source 
of information about GNU/Linux. Donations to support their work can be made 
at http://donate.fsf.org. Their headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA.

Versão em português: http://www.fsfla.org/?q=pt/node/69 




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