[Cialug] This seems odd.....

[Kevin C. Smith]

If it becomes law in France, they will prosecute anyone that 
opens their source code. Free is not about money, it's about 
the availability of the code. They want to stop developers from 
releasing their code.

'SCPP have told Free Software authors: "You will be required to 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"'

On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 13:28 -0600, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> maybe you can charge a penny and just take an IOU?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin C. Smith [mailto:kevin at linuxsmith.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 11:09 AM
> To: cialug at cialug.org
> Subject: [Cialug] This seems odd.....
> 
> 
> A French move to bane Free Software?
> 
> http://www.fsffrance.org/news/article2005-11-25.en.html
> 
> What do they have to gain from this. Hell, Mandriva is French. All 
> they will do is force development outside the country.
> 
> 
-- 
Kevin C. Smith

"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made
Members of Congress." -- Mark Twain