[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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