"FSFE's Freedom Task Force (FTF) and GPL-Violations.org today released a guide to reporting and fixing licence compliance issues. This guide will help users and developers to deal with license violation reports. It explains how to make a report, what information is useful to include, and offers suggestions for how projects or businesses can deal with reports once they are received..." -- NB: Join the Fellowship and protect your Freedom!
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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mk
3 years 24 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago
Language Version
Ah, can.axis made a link to the not yet existing French translation of the press release :)
If someone wants to translate that PR into another language, do the same as for all FSFE websites: download the xhtml from the XHTML link on the button of every page, announce that you will translate it on translators@fsfeurope.org (so we do not do duplicated work, e.g. a German translation is on progress, the Greek already online), translate it, and sent the translated xhtml file to translators@fsfeurope.org, receive a big thank you from me or someone else on the list :)
akf
3 years 24 weeks 20 hours 31 min ago
hard to find
In the announcement they only link to the ftf page. But when I follow that link, I get a version for my native language, and this version seems to be not updated yet. So it was very hard to find for me.
For those with a similar problem, here's the direct link:
http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/ftf/reporting-fixing-violations.en.html
mk
3 years 24 weeks 19 hours 59 min ago
Hopefully improved
Hi akf, you're right about that. Problem here was, that the FTF pages where also updated Monday. I made "The guide" in the html version of the PR a link to the guide. It does not solve the problem completely, but I hope it helps. Also sent the feedback about that to the authors of the PR.