[Lac] [Fwd: [Fsg] Invitation to attend the 2nd international Conference on GPLv3]

[Marcelo D'Elia Branco]

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De: Peter Brown <peterb at fsf.org>
Para: fsg at libre.org
Assunto: [Fsg] Invitation to attend the 2nd international Conference on
GPLv3
Data: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:28:27 -0500

The FSF offers an open invitation to the community to attend the 2nd
international conference on GPLv3 on April 21st & 22nd in Porto Alegre,
Brazil. The conference will take place during the 7th International Free
Software Forum (FISL).

The conference will commence with a major speech by Richard Stallman,
and we have a number of panels discussing the major issues facing the
free software movement. Many of these panels will include
representatives of the groups in this list. If you are attending FISL
and would like to be considered for involvement in a panel discussion,
please send an email to the <rsvp at gplv3.fsf.org> outlining your
suitability. Space is unfortunately very limited. The conference agenda
is at the bottom of this mail.

For those that cannot attend we will be providing audio and video at
http://gplv3.fsf.org/av

all the best

peter, fsf



2nd international GPLv3 conference

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.

Agenda:

1. GPLv3 - Introduction
Richard Stallman, FSF

2. Discussion of GPLv3 key changes and specific elements
Richard Fontana, SFLC

3. International implications of a worldwide copyright license

4. Developers panel

5. Software patents and DRM

6. GPL compatibility with other free software licenses

7. Adoption of GPLv3 in Latin America


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.


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