French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software

[email protected] Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:34:55 -0000

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25 November 2005. FSF France press release. Friday November 18th, 2005, French Department of Culture. SNEP and SCPP tell Free Software authors: "You shall 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 pass in the Parliament.

URL: http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html