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12 1 FSF in 2009 tem, register those copyrights with the laptops. ’s decision to ship a We must not forget that, in almost US Copyright Office, and use the copy- new binary driver remains more con- all cases, these computers remain con- by Peter Brown right system to enforce the terms of troversial than the fact that the vast trolled, completely and ultimately, by Executive Director our copyleft licenses to guarantee re- majority of the world’s computer-using companies that very few of us trust at he free software movement is one spect for the freedom that our licenses population knows nothing other than all. Tthe most successful social move- promise, to all recipients. phone-based computers that remain al- I’m not sure how we will accom- ments to emerge in the past 25 years, Third, we campaign to raise aware- most unthinkably unfree and which re- plish this task. But more of us need to driven by a worldwide community of ness of the ethical benefits of free soft- main almost entirely unfreeable when think long, hard, and creatively about ethical programmers dedicated to free- ware and against the use of proprietary compared to personal computers. For this problem. I’ll be calling my phone dom and sharing. Its impact on our fu- software. Our campaign against Dig- most of the world’s computer users, “my computer” as a first, very per- ture is growing every day. But the ulti- ital Restrictions Management (DRM) there is no option of, and essentially sonal, step. I have done this over the mate success of the free software move- at defectivebydesign.org turned ac- no hope for, freedom on their current last week and it has led to some conver- ment depends on teaching our friends, ceptance of anti-user technology mea- devices. sations with slightly confused acquain- neighbors and work colleagues to rec- sures into a public campaign that It shocks me that anyone, espe- tances. Of course, this doesn’t make ognize the danger of not having soft- now makes DRM systems highly un- cially free software advocates, would my phone any less free. But it does ware freedom — a freedom that they popular. Our successful campaign happily put up with such nonfree com- mean I’m talking more about the non- have lost, often without recognizing it, against adoption of , puters. I think part of the reason lies freeness most of us have put up with to proprietary software. and our new campaign against Win- in the fact that most users of mobile too silently. The FSF is currently working on dows 7, have raised widespread con- phones, and even most phone users At this stage, that seems like three fronts to advance the cause of cern about how proprietary software that care about software freedom and progress. the free software movement. First, works against the interest of all cit- technological autonomy, don’t think of in software, we sponsor the GNU izens. Our campaigns to promote their phones as computers. Thinking project and promote the adoption of free formats such as OpenDocument that our phones as computers will not fully free GNU/Linux distributions and PlayOgg have achieved widespread solve any of the problems I’ve alluded .org/distros like gNewSense and support. And finally, our 20-year cam- to. But doing so remains an essen- Trisquel. We identify high prior- paign against software patents will this tial first step toward any solution. Al- ity free software projects at fsf.org/ year see our legal brief from our End though we must still work to build vi- campaigns/priority.html that need Software Patents campaign gain atten- able, widely accessible, and compelling developer focus and resources to ad- tion from the US Supreme Court in a free phones, we must first convince vance the adoption of GNU/Linux sys- landmark ruling expected in May 2010. both users and developers that this is tems, and we work to alert the commu- Of course, we do all this work in an important goal. Reminding peo- nity to threats to free software, such as collaboration with free software users ple that our phones, both free and the seduction by popular but patent- and developers like you, who volunteer nonfree, are powerful general-purpose encumbered platforms, or misleading their time to help a campaign, or who computers remains an important and efforts that direct developers to create join a GNU project to hack on code, still largely unfufilled part of this pro- free software for proprietary platforms. or who become associate members to cess. Second, in licensing, we publish show their support and fund our ef- We must find ways to remind our- the world’s most popular free soft- forts. Thank you! selves and others of the fact that mod- ware licenses, including the GNU Gen- ern phones are powerful computers eral Public License, and provide li- with powerful interfaces that are use- censing help and guidance to the free Life in the Licensing ful for an unimaginable variety of ar- software developer community through Compliance Lab bitrary applications. We must focus our Free Software Licensing and Com- on the fact that these computers have pliance Lab. At the Lab we collect by Brett Smith microphones, sensors, and other sen- copyrights from thousands of develop- Licensing Engineer sors and that we trust them with our ers working on the GNU operating sys- closest secrets and most sensitive data.

2 11 in 2007 began claiming that Bilski case unfolds at news.swpat. tomers that they had the right to share the kernel violates 235 of its patents — org. and change some of the software they although the patents have never been received. That finally put an end to a specified. Neither could be precise, but case that had been open for more than they give us ballpark figures. The computer in my five years. The kernel is one component, pocket Adoption of GPLv3 and the Lesser and because the human-written source GNU General Public License version code is online, we can see it is approx- by 3 (LGPLv3) continues apace—we’ve imately 4,000,000 lines long. Given Director even handled a couple of compliance that a distribution of the GNU/Linux f we’ve kept up with projections, by Watch Jeremy Allison’s video at fsf.org cases that involved GPLv3-covered operating system, complete with ap- Ithe end of this year, the world will be software. Most GNU projects have had plications, can contain software with home to three billion mobile phones. multiple releases under the latest li- more than 225 million lines of source That’s nearly one phone for every Initially, the Free Software Founda- censes now. The few that haven’t gen- code, when we extrapolate from the other living human being. Although tion staff wrote software for the GNU erally need new exception text, and kernel numbers we arrive at the pos- these phones open up a world of im- operating system. Since the early we’ve been working on getting those sibility of 13,160 or 15,848 patent in- portant new opportunities in commu- 1990s, much of this work has been updated, slowly but surely. We re- fringements per complete distribution. nication, creativity, and cooperation done by non-FSF staff, thanks to the leased new exception text for Auto- All of this in something that can be — and it’s important not to under- increasing popularity of GNU. Some conf in August, and we’re still drafting distributed once or a thousand times, state this fact — they also represent of our work has then shifted to writ- more. usually at no cost, sometimes by large a step toward a sort of technological ing and maintaining the GNU Gen- In September, we filed an ami- corporations, sometimes by individu- dystopia not unlike Stallman’s Right eral Public License (GPL), a copy- cus curiae brief in The Authors Guild, als. To Read.4 Phones represent one of the right license which protects free soft- Inc., et al. v. Google Inc.—more col- This is a degree of uncertainty that most locked-down, proprietary, and ware by allowing people to run, modify loquially known as the “Google Book can’t be fixed by changes in evaluation generally unfree technologies in wide and copy software, but on the condi- Search case.” This case began when standards. distribution. The implications for soft- tion that anyone else receiving the soft- a group of authors sued Google for There was a time when if you wrote ware freedom and technological em- ware have the same rights. The FSF’s scanning books for their Google Book something, you owned it. You could powerment are dire. Free Software Licensing and Compli- Search product, alleging that such use distribute it, you could use it as a start- But despite the fact that mobile ance Lab works to protect these rights, infringed their copyrights. As the ing point for collaboration. Whether phones represent what may be the and to help update the GNU licenses case progressed, the parties proposed the ownership is a good or bad thing greatest threat to software freedom to- when needed to deal with the ever- a wide-reaching class action settlement for society depends on what freedoms day, the free software community has changing free software landscape. that would generally grant Google per- you grant the recipients, but at least — with a number of notable exceptions The past few months have been ex- mission to display and sell all books— those who did the right thing had legal that I want to both thank and draw citing ones for us in the Lab. Just including out-of-print works and or- certainty. Now, ownership of a piece of increased attention to — been mostly reviewing the news from the past few phan works whose copyright holders software is hopeful speculation. There silent on the issue. months demonstrates how we work on can’t be found—under the condition is no reliable way to have a settled ex- I know passionate advocates of soft- many different fronts to protect soft- that they pay royalties to the au- pectation regarding the boundaries or ware freedom who work tirelessly to rid ware freedom for everyone. thors, who can opt out of the pro- the extent to which you own a piece themselves and the world of a hand- Shortly after we published our last gram if they wish. One consequence of software. The Supreme Court now ful of binary blobs in the kernel Linux Bulletin, we settled the lawsuit we had of the settlement that was proposed has the chance to rid us of this uncer- — important work that we all bene- brought against Cisco over their viola- was that it would grant Google permis- tainty and this unfair regulation, by fit from. And yet, even some of these tions of various free software licenses. sion to publish works released under giving the United States Patent and “hardliners” don’t seem to hold their As part of that agreement, Cisco ap- the GNU Free Documentation License, Trademark Office a reliable tool for ex- phones to their same standards as their pointed a Free Software Director for its and other copyleft licenses, without Linksys subsidiary to oversee the com- cluding software ideas from patentable 4 following those licenses’ terms. They subject matter. You can support our gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read. pany’s compliance work. It also took would not have to provide the work html efforts and follow ongoing news as the various steps to notify its previous cus- in a form that people could mod-

10 3 ify; they could distribute the work always on the lookout for interns in- anything to gain for the patent holder Now, it’s important to look at the wrapped in a Digital Restrictions Man- terested in licensing. (although the patent will still be en- output of the mentioned user commu- agement (DRM) format if they wished; forced to sink the piece of software so nities. If like, say, hobbyist watch- and more. All they would need to do is that computer users are pushed toward makers, they just catered for them- pay royalties to the authors. We sug- The importance of indi- a program which will pay royalties to selves and a few friends, or a small gested to the Court that the settlement vidual membership the patent holder). enough clientele that didn’t attract the would do better to require license com- In software, rather than support- attention of patent holders, then this pliance when the work is already free, by Deborah Nicholson ing innovators, patents protect the old wouldn’t be a big problem. The sys- rather than royalty payments. Since Membership Coordinator against the new. tem would still be unjust, but if the then, the parties in the case have an- ’m sure you’ll hear the assertion that This issue is further exasperated by injustice never manifested itself, then nounced that they are working on a I“membership is important” more a problem which applies to all types it would be theoretical issue. revised settlement, which hasn’t been than once this season — in the cur- of software developer: in no other do- However (as supporters of the FSF released yet. We’re still following this rent economy every organization could main are modern standards as crucial know), freely redistributable software case, and hopeful that the negotiating certainly use money, but why exactly as they are in software. If you want and the work that was begun by ide- parties will take our suggestions into is membership so important? to cure rubber, there are many ways alists and hobbyists has now lead to account. For the FSF it provides funding to do it. When patents block the de- the world’s most used Web server, And of course, there’s still all the to employ a small staff of twelve so veloper of physical products from us- the world’s second most used Web work that goes on behind the scenes. we can support the efforts of thou- ing one method, there’s the possibility browser, and the GNU/Linux operat- In order to pursue violations, we need sands of volunteers all over the world, of useful innovation when that devel- ing system. Indeed, the “users” are to stay on top of our copyright as- as well as providing the kind of au- oper looks for an alternative method. nowadays often employees, and their signments and registrations. Donald tonomy that an organization subject In software, being blocked from using collaborative development models have Robertson, our copyright administra- to grant-making trends and corporate an email, image, or document format emerged as the primary competitors in tor, has been working to beef up our whims can’t enjoy. Most importantly, equates to being prohibited from writ- many software domains. Blocking col- registration process to make sure that as members you are the face of the ing a functional email reader, image laboration turns out not only to be a we’re always on completely solid legal FSF in your community. viewer or word processor. An inno- restriction on useful individual activi- ground when we handle these cases. We get a huge amount of work done vative word processor that can’t read ties, but it also stifles competition and We continue to resolve most violations for such a small staff — we main- any existing documents is simply use- the mass production of useful software. cooperatively, and work to raise aware- tain the GNU General Public License less, and any innovations therein are Lists and lists of research suggests that ness about the licenses’ requirements. (GPL), house the GNU Project, run thus wasted effort. patents reduce software innovation. As the stewards for some of the the Defective by Design campaign and For video, the standards problem Although large firms now con- most popular licenses in the free soft- defend free software (and free software is very real. The MPEG-LA group tribute to these projects, many of ware community, and legal guardian users) from patent abuse, secret for- claims to represent more than twenty the developers are still individuals and for the GNU Project, we have unique mats and hardware that requires non- patent holders which each have one or people who don’t directly profit. The opportunities to educate people about free drivers. I find that I sometimes more essential patents for implement- terms of distribution for this software free software and make sure that oth- surprise our supporters when I tell ing the commonly used mpeg video are the same now as they always have ers respect the terms of our licenses. them there are only twelve of us. The format. There’s no license available been. It’s a proven formula, and a key Your support makes it possible for us frequent visitors to our office are given for freely redistributable software, and clause is that you can’t distribute if to do that work. the tour and I get the feeling that they even royalty payers have to agree to patent royalties will be required. You can find out more about don’t quite believe us. Perhaps they MPEG-LA’s terms. The committee The kernel of the GNU/Linux the FSF Free Software Licensing and suspect that we’re not showing them developing the next standard for Web operating system was examined by Compliance Lab at its website, fsf. the secret floors where the wizards and pages, HTML5, spent months search- patent attorney Dan Ravicher, who an- org/ licensing and questions about their minions work? ing and debating which video format nounced on August 2, 2004, that he our licenses can be sent to licensing@ Membership is individual, personal they could recommend in the standard, had found no court-validated patents fsf.org . Brett, Donald and the li- and if you wish, it can also be private. and the final answer was that, due to to be infringed but 283 issued patents censing volunteers also have a blog, Your decision to support free software software patents, there is today no for- existed which could potentially be used fsf.org/ blogs/licensing and are mat they can recommend. to support patent claims. Thereafter,

4 9 The Bilski case is the first review the software developers that sit in the is not subject to the desires of a group Software for education, of patentable subject matter since IT departments of every medium-sized of shareholders. It is not a decision not babysitting 1981. This decision could make the company. They’re the folks that keep which is made with the eyes of the rules for decades to come and the jus- the emails flowing, who write internal grant-making community on you. It by John Sullivan tices’ comments at the November 9th software, extend software bought by is not even made with your employer’s Operations Manager hearing indicate that they do see prob- the company, and who run the Web approval or disapproval in mind. Un- ducation is one of the most im- lems with the patenting of software. site. The second group is individuals, less you are one of those happy folk Eportant fronts for the advocacy of This hands us our biggest opportunity, informal groups and communities who employed at a free software company, free software. Free software is bet- and a heavy responsibility. program for their own benefit or for so- where FSF membership demonstrates ter philosophically for education, be- Some legal experts have speculated cial reasons such as providing alterna- your commitment to shared goals, your cause it acknowledges the freedom of that the ruling will be handed down in tives to software seen as overly restric- coworkers may not even know that students to do what they are supposed early Spring 2010. Others have sug- tive. you’re one of us. to be doing — learning and applying gested that whatever the result, leg- The existence of these two cate- I left the best bit for last — the what they’ve learned. Whereas propri- islative change will be proposed. The gories changes everything because it’s thing that we cherish the most about etary software sets technical and legal ongoing Supreme Court case makes it impractical to require them to work our members, is our members them- restrictions which limit how far kids easier for us to raise media interest in within the slow patent system and bear selves. You get updates from us every can go in their learning, even calling this topic, and if it comes to legislation, the legal and financial risks involved. week or so and so you know about the them criminals if they try too learn too we’re going to need broad public sup- Obviously, patent incentives are not challenges to free software. Maybe you much or get too creative, free software port for abolition of software patents. necessary to motivate IT departments pass the news along to your friends and encourages them to go as far as they In the next three months, we have a to fix problems. Further, when a com- colleagues and spread the message of want to go. Educational environments unique chance and a need to build a pany manager reports a Web site prob- free software that way. Maybe you’ve are also critical because school is an groundswell for abolition of software lem, they don’t expect the IT depart- helped a relative install Inkscape or important time of life for acclimating patents in the USA. That’s where we ment to reply about first seeking legal GIMP and explained to them a little people to software; it’s one of the main need you. advice for a patent search, and they bit about free software as you worked. places where people are indoctrinated The Supreme Court isn’t obliged don’t expect to later have a bill or a Nobody else in the free software move- with proprietary software and the idea to rule on the patentability of soft- cease-and-desist letter from a patent ment has the easy opportunities that that to use a computer is to use Micro- ware ideas. Bilski’s patent is a business holder because of the way in which you do to have conversations with your soft Windows. method patent, not a software patent. the IT department happened to fix the cousin or your neighbor about user Despite the perfect fit between free So why might the court make a broad problem. freedom, which is precisely why you are software and education, it’s proved one ruling which would cover software? A second issue is that applying in- so important. You are already right of the hardest areas for our message The low cost of entry to software dustrial regulations to activities people there, in your community — a card- to be heard. While free software can development means the number of do for fun or for the benefit of their carrying member of the Free Software be found in university computer sci- small companies is particularly large, community is unjust. For user com- Foundation — you are the movement. ence departments, it is rarely found in but we’ll leave that aside to look at a munities programming to suit their non-specialist areas of education. Pro- bigger difference. In most patentable own needs, the veto power that the prietary software companies offer both fields, the array of big and small patent holder gains over distribution students and schools discounts, or even companies describes how products are of the software is far too powerful. If give it away at no charge. Many uni- made. If this were true for soft- the software is written for the purpose versities and even some high schools ware, then the decision of patentabil- of having a freely redistributable pro- are distributing laptops or other mo- ity would only have economic implica- gram, then this third-party veto can bile computers to their students now tions, and patents would only raise eco- spoil the developer’s efforts at any mo- — loaded with proprietary software. nomic problems. But in software, this ment. There will be no direct prof- This means that we won’t succeed in is only half the story. its from which to offer royalty pay- promoting free software with weaker In software, unlike in other patentablements, so the result is a lose-lose sit- “open source” arguments like price or fields, there are two additional cat- uation where the developer’s work is Rob Savoye, GNU hacker – ’I support free convenience. We need to stress the free egories of developers. The first is destroyed, and there was never even software and the FSF’

8 5 software values of freedom, autonomy, els.2 While we’ve had interns help- the opportunity. You can promote free use and the culture we live in. DRM and pedagogy. ing out in the past, we’ve now formal- software in your school or in your com- and the DMCA can make it illegal to We’ll have to make arguments ized the process and started to build munity’s schools, and share any let- share an article, backup your kids’ fa- like Walter Bender of Sugar Labs ongoing relationships with universities. ters or texts you may write as part of vorite DVD, or move your music from made in his inspirational talk at this These interns not only do great work that effort on LibrePlanet, for others one player to another. The year’s Software Freedom Day event in at the FSF, but also return to their to reuse. You can renew your mem- Kindle ebook reader (we call it the Boston. He stressed that education is schools better equipped to teach other bership, or convince a friend to join, “Swindle”) has been a target of sev- action, and that kids learn best by do- people about free software. to expand the resources we have to eral Defective by Design actions. So ing. Only free software enables this One of our interns, Max Shinn, take on this work. Finally, you can let when Amazon stepped into a public re- in the end — proprietary software can started the GNU Generation program, us know at [email protected] about lations nightmare this summer by re- let kids drive different vehicles, but it a project to involve pre-university and the threats and impediments to free motely deleting hundreds of copies of won’t ever let them look under the high school students in free software.3 software in your university or school, George Orwell’s 1984, we responded hood. He described the culture of free GNU Generation has attracted a great so we can take action. Together we with a petition demanding an end to software as a culture of sharing and deal of interest and participation, and can make computers tools for learning, Amazon’s ebook DRM. It received over critique, and proprietary software as a its members have already made valu- not babysitting. 4,000 signatures from readers, aca- culture of babysitting. able contributions from the local to demics, and librarians, and the press Walter also announced the first suc- the global, including starting free soft- coverage helped draw public attention cess of a project that the FSF had been ware groups at their own schools and Campaigns Update to the fundamental problems of DRM. discussing with Sugar Labs — a fully translating the Windows 7 Sins cam- As the holiday shopping season ap- by Matt Lee and Holmes Wilson free version of “Sugar on a Stick.” This paign site. Another intern, Sarah Ade- proaches, we’re planning other actions Campaigns Managers is a bootable USB stick running the laida McIntire, helped build the Libre- against the Swindle, as well as the he campaigns team has been busy FSF-endorsed Trisquel GNU/Linux Planet wiki at libreplanet.org with Barnes and Noble Nook (better known Tsince the last Bulletin. Here are distribution, which loads the Sugar over 2,000 edits containing information at the “Crook”). learning environment.1 Sugar has been about free software groups around the some of the latest things we’ve been Software Freedom Day — At working on: used in the One Laptop Per Child proj- world. Niko Kern and Bernie Inno- Software Freedom Day 2009 in Boston, Windows 7 Sins — Microsoft ect, but using this USB stick, it can centi have provided very valuable as- FSF volunteer Dana Moser roved the run on other laptops and desktops as sistance to the FSF systems adminis- Windows has hundreds of millions of event asking participants the following people locked into proprietary soft- well. Because it doesn’t require in- trators, supporting and improving the questions, while making videos of the ware. It exemplifies some of propri- stalling any software on the computer, infrastructure the FSF community and responses: “Why do you like free soft- etary software’s most serious problems, it’s a great way for people to demon- the GNU Project depend on. ware?” and “Why is software freedom like security and privacy. Windows strate and introduce free software in It is incredibly encouraging to see important to you?” The responses windows7sins.org schools. I encourage you to give it a try such efforts for promoting free soft- 7 Sins ( ) makes the came out great, but that’s just the be- case against Microsoft and proprietary — the way it provides guided creative ware with young people and students ginning. We’ve put out the call for FSF software, in response to the latest activities while also exposing the work- gaining momentum and having suc- supporters to submit their own videos, ings of the activities for people who cess. The FSF will be putting even release of Microsoft Windows. The and invite friends to do the same. launch of the campaign, coinciding want to tinker is an amazing model. more energy into them in the com- Keep up with FSF campaigns at with the launch of Windows 7, featured In addition to collaborations like ing year, as a critical step toward our fsf. org/ campaigns and subscribe to the construction of a giant trashcan in this with other organizations, the FSF goal of a creative, free society. You the monthly update on all things FSF, the Boston Common, into which par- has been building its own efforts in can help by applying to our internship the Free Software Supporter, fsf. ticipants threw mock boxes of popular the area of education. During the last program to spend a few months work- org/ fss . proprietary software. Visit fsf.org for year, we launched our new internship ing closely with our staff and commu- video of the campaign in the free Ogg program, which has already connected nity on exciting free software projects, the FSF with several students at both or by telling students you know about Theora format. End Software Patents Defective by Design — Digital the graduate and undergraduate lev- 2 fsf.org/volunteer/internships Restrictions Management (DRM) robs by Ciaran Riordian 1 3 trisquel.info/en/trisquel-sugar fsf.org/gnugeneration us of control over the technology we End Software Patents

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