FSF home page critical of upcoming Canadian copyright bill
"Ian! D. Allen" <[email protected]>
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| Organization | Ian! D. Allen, Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA - http://www.idallen.com/ |
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Another talking point for politicians:
The Free Software Foundation (FSF), the people whose GPL software
license is used by the Linux kernel and a large part of the huge
free/libre open source software industry (FLOSS), have a front-page
item on their home page at www.gnu.org that asks the world to reject
Canada's new Bill C-61.
The FSF campaign is titled "Fight the Canadian DMCA!" and summarizes
some of the damage that the new Bill C-61 will cause Canadians.
Bill C-61 is extremely bad news for the development and use of open
source software in Canada, and bad press on the FSF home page is
not how we want the world to see Canada. For more information,
see http://www.faircopyrightforcanada.ca/
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