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Associate Membership: Become an associate member of the FSF. Members will receive Issue 26 Bulletin June 2015 a bootable USB card, e- for- warding, and an account on the FSF’s Jabber/XMPP server. To , privacy, sign up or get more information, Contents visit member.fsf.org or write to and activism [email protected]. by John Sullivan Free software, privacy, 1 Executive Director and activism Donate to the FSF with Bitcoin. Online: Use your credit card GPG key ID: 61A0963B GNU IceCat and the 3 or PayPal account to make a wo years ago, when Edward donation at my.fsf.org/donate TSnowden revealed a massive US Copyright c 2015 Free OntheroadwithRMS 5 or contact [email protected] for National Security Agency (NSA) bulk Software Foundation, Inc. Demystifying copyleft 6 more information on supporting surveillance program covering the com- Support the FSF by 7 the FSF. munications of US citizens unsus- The articles in this bulletin are shopping at GNU Press pected of any crime, a popular ex- individually licensed under the Jobs: List your job offers on our Interview: Graphic 8 pectation in our community was that Creative Commons Attribu- jobs page: fsf.org/jobs. designer Reda Lazri and the FSF would tion No Derivative Works Found in translation 9 Free Software Directory: scream, “We told you so! We’ve been 3.0 United States License. Our CiviC[RM] duty 10 To view a copy of this license, Browse and download from thou- telling you about these dangers for visit http://creativecommons. sands of different free software 30 years!” Snowden even used GNU org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/ projects: directory.fsf.org. software — specifically GnuPG en- or send a letter to Creative Com- cryption — to safely communicate his Volunteer: To learn more, visit whistleblower information to the me- mons, 171 Second Street, Suite fsf.org/volunteer. 300, San Francisco, California, dia. As additional revelations about 94105, USA. LibrePlanet: Find local groups bulk surveillance around the world in your area or start your own at piled up, it was indeed a concrete op- libreplanet.org! portunity to explain the importance of free software for our freedom, and of Free Software Supporter: Re- freedom in relation to privacy. ceive our monthly newslet- Since then, we’ve launched some ter: fsf.org/fss. important initiatives promoting the use of related pieces of free software. Published twice yearly by the Our Email Self-Defense Guide, launched , 51 one year ago, has been used by tens Franklin Street, 5th Floor, of thousands of people to set up email Boston, MA 02110-1301, (617) encryption using free software.1 The 542-5942. [email protected], S´ebastien Jodogne received the Award past two LibrePlanet conferences fea- fsf.org for the Advancement of Free Software for his Orthanc medical imaging project at tured talks focused on encryption and LibrePlanet 2015. 1emailselfdefense.fsf.org

12 1 resisting bulk surveillance, most no- be restricted by a society’s laws — we When organizing for a social move- ing” option for event-specific or general tably a keynote (itself delivered over a don’t defend the right of anyone to use ment, as the FSF does, keeping track volunteering. In addition to record- free software, encrypted, anonymized software to kill another person in or- of your constituents, supporters, and ing volunteer interest, it lets organi- video link) by developer and jour- der to rob them. That is illegal and members is crucial. With CiviCRM, zations record data about volunteers: nalist Jacob Appelbaum.2 wrong, but restrictions on the software organizations can get to know their whether they arrived on time, stayed But this issue has also exposed dis- itself, which cannot be implemented community by creating events and beyond their scheduled time slot or left agreements within the free software without restricting expressive speech, tracking responses to petitions or sur- early, and even a review of the vol- movement. Not all FSF members math, and creative thought, are not veys. I have implemented CiviCRM in- unteer. That data is associated with agree about what level, if any, of gov- an ethical way to achieve other social stances for various organizations, so I the volunteer’s contact record, allow- ernment surveillance is appropriate, or purposes. This is a major reason why was delighted to see that it is used here ing the organization to better track about which methods, if any, are okay. we do not have a term in the GNU at the FSF, too! We use CiviCRM to volunteering within their community. Some are concerned about terrorism General Public License (GPL) saying manage member, donor, and supporter I want to explore using CiviVolunteer more than others (and disagree about “This software cannot be used for bulk data, to send , for event registra- for LibrePlanet 2016. Extension devel- what, if anything, should be called ter- surveillance.” tion, and to manage donations — it is opment is a great way to expand Civi- rorism), some think that surveillance is But is bulk surveillance an indepen- at the core of our work. CRM’s features without modifying the ineffective against such threats, some dent core issue for the free software I had two goals for CiviCON: to core code directly, and can be added prioritize citizens’ privacy within their movement? While we are continually build a stronger relationship between to civicrm.org/extensions for oth- own nations, and others view it as an listening to feedback and evaluating the FSF and the CiviCRM community, ers to use or contribute to. international human rights issue. this question, the FSF has set a posi- and to bring back ideas for improving There is also the uncomfortable tion in this debate that we think is the the FSF’s CiviCRM instance. likelihood that the NSA is using free right one. As an organization with a This was my first time meeting the software to conduct its surveillance op- human rights agenda that discomforts CiviCRM community in person. Prior erations. Free software is defined by many established powers, both govern- to CiviCon, most of my communica- the Four Freedoms, the first of which is ment and corporate, we cannot accept tion with CiviCRM people was via the freedom to run the software for any bulk surveillance at a level that im- IRC, so an in-person meeting in meat purpose. This is not to say that the pedes or deters necessary anonymous (or tofu) space was a great opportu- Along with the excitement of Civi- FSF agrees with all purposes for which communications with our allies. nity to strengthen relationships. When Con itself, I did some community or- free software is used. FSF staff hold People take real risks when they I was not in a session, I was getting to ganizing in the form of an FSF mem- a variety of political opinions, and his- communicate to us that their company know many of CiviCRM’s core devel- ber and supporter gathering held after torically, our staff has included Marx- is knowingly violating the GPL. A hy- opers and figuring out ways to further the conference. I was expecting around ists and libertarians, liberal democrats pothetical employee takes a connect with the community. twenty people, but after the CiviCon and fiscal conservatives, and every- real risk when disclosing to us that A few sessions shared some great folks promoted the event, nearly eighty thing in between. In this way, the FSF the company is secretly making patent ideas in progress, such as the work by people showed up. I met some great staff is a microcosm of the free software threats against free software competi- Leukemia and Lymphoma Research of FSF members and some folks became movement; our supporters don’t all tors, or when leaking elements of a con- the UK to expand a fundraising fea- members for the first time. agree on these issues either, and they certed campaign against GNU/. ture called Personal Campaigns from All in all, I did my CiviC[RM] duty let us know when they feel that the People writing and distributing free individual fundraising pages into Team and I look forward to representing the FSF has taken a public position that software to work around Digital Re- Campaigns, in which multiple Personal FSF at another conference. If you hap- goes outside the scope of supporting strictions Management (DRM) even Campaigns connect to a Team Goal. pen to be in the Boston area and want free software and computer user free- for legal purposes can become targets This is being developed into a Civi- to learn more about CiviCRM, every dom. of interest to the government. CRM extension to expand CiviCRM’s month on the third Tuesday the FSF What we do agree on is the impor- For the free software movement to core functionality. hosts the Boston CiviCRM meetup in tance of free software. The ends to succeed, we need whistleblowing and Another great extension I discov- our office. Contact me at [email protected] which any software can be used may communication around free software ered is CiviVolunteer. This extension for more information, and check out development to be safe. The levels expands CiviCRM’s events capability, the FSF’s CiviCRM instance at my. 2u.fsf.org/lpja of surveillance that Snowden revealed, adding an “Interested in Volunteer- fsf.org.

2 11 eration video,23 was created by en- help us maintain an international per- and the many stories since from around We have been in existence for thirty thusiastic volunteers from around the spective — something that can be chal- the world, show that bulk surveillance years come October. We have achieved globe. lenging when there are so many threats has gone too far by this yardstick. The many things in that time — you can My role at the FSF is the main to computer user freedom here in the FSF has therefore committed to work now quite easily have a fully functional contact for translations, and for the States. against it, at least until it is reduced laptop with a free , past five months I have been catch- We need your help! Please watch to a level that does not chill communi- and free software powers the ing up on translation offers old and for translation opportunities, or get in cations vital to the free software move- — but we have many more challenges new, and in the process, communicat- touch if you want to help with a spe- ment. to face in the next thirty years. ing with wonderful free software en- cific project. If you have thoughts on We also have decided to develop The body of FSF membership is a thusiasts around the world. The Free how to make our translation process materials that help people use free community of people with incompati- Software Supporter is collaboratively better, I’m interested in hearing them. software to protect whatever level of ble beliefs in many areas, but who are translated each month, into French by You can reach me at campaigns@fsf. privacy they want to have. In this re- united by the principle that the tech- free software advocates at the French org. And if you are already part of our spect, the issue is not so different from nology used to express these political organization April24 and into Span- translation efforts, thank you, truly. the other wants and needs that peo- beliefs should not be under the exclu- ish by volunteers on the FSF Spanish You make the FSF stronger and help ple express for their computing lives. sive control or surveillance of anyone. translators discussion list.25 us make the world a freer place. People want to do something with If you’re not already a member, please As I learn about our translation software on a computer, and we want join this cause and this community to- needs and the multilingual volunteers to make sure they can do that with free day! who love to help spread the word about software. If free software for a certain free software, I am working to figure Get 10% off! purpose does not exist, we may want out the most effective ways to coor- to get it developed. GNU IceCat and the dinate translations. There are chal- Support the Free Software We have also brought critical Free Software Directory lenges: we are a small staff, with each Foundation by purchasing scrutiny on efforts to improve privacy by Joshua Gay person shouldering many responsibili- GNU Press merchandise. through tweaking proprietary plat- Licensing and Compliance ties for the organization. We also don’t Visit shop.fsf.org and enter forms or altering the details of reg- Manager have native knowledge of many lan- discount code ulatory regimes. Free software does GPG key ID: 8DA625BB guages. So we rely on our volunteers to BulletinJun2015. not guarantee privacy or security — we he GNU IceCat browser is part provide material that has been trans- have bugs too — but it is a prerequisite Tof GNUzilla, the GNU version lated by a person with fluency in the to true protection of your privacy and of ’s suite of software that language, preferably vetted by another security. You must be able to choose includes the . fluent speaker, and formatted accord- who to trust and who should provide IceCat is a browser designed to respect ing to the project’s needs. That way, Our CiviC[RM] duty the software you use. Any fighting your privacy and your freedom. we can post and publicize translated by Stephen Mahood chance in this area begins with free When you first start up GNU material quickly, and avoid having to System Administrator software. Anything less is blind faith IceCat, the default landing page is the make many corrections later. GPG key ID: 7CF9305D in a black box. about:icecat page. It provides seven Translations are important to the This spring, I attended CiviCon, an The FSF is one of only a few orga- checkboxes that allow you to enable FSF’s central mission: to promote annual conference focused on the nizations promoting the view that all privacy features including blocking computer user freedom and to defend AGPL-licensed program CiviCRM, in software should be free software. We non-free JavaScript and privacy track- the rights of all free software users. the mile high city of Denver, Colorado. work on your behalf to disarm propri- ers, or disabling JavaScript entirely, Our members and supporters outside CiviCRM focuses on membership man- etary software companies so that they and redirecting to HTTPS whenever the United States are crucial to this agement, but expands beyond that to can no longer restrict you, to limit the possible. effort, and our relationships with them events, registrations, email and postal impact of bulk surveillance so that we Under the hood, these options mailings, and non-member contacts. It can all safely advance our free software 23u.fsf.org/usrlib are implemented using several browser 24april.org has many applications — no pun in- and other beliefs, and to continually add-ons and extensions. GNU Li- 25 lists..org/mailman/listinfo/ tended — and it has a great commu- improve the free software available to breJS blocks execution of nonfree fsfwww-translators-es-discuss nity at its heart. you. But we can’t do this without you.

10 3 JavaScript. HTTPS-Everywhere en- nearly as many as what Mozilla has What tools do you use? work of Glenn Jones,19 and in the free crypts your communications with listed on their addons site. software community I enjoy following My main vector illustration tool has al- 20 many major Web sites, making your The majority of add-ons on the the GNOME designers. ways been Inkscape. I’ve never liked browsing more secure. SpyBlock and Mozilla Add-ons site are free software. You can see Reda’s work on Adobe Illustrator much. I use Inkscape 21 22 Adblock Plus block privacy trackers As such, we were at first tempted to Dribbble and DeviantArt. for drawing some of my wallpapers, while in normal browsing mode, and simply write a script that imported for quick wireframing, for all my logo all third party requests when in pri- all of the Mozilla Add-ons with free work, and for making icons. I also like vate browsing mode. Also, there are software licenses listed into the FSD. Found in translation Blender. some important things you won’t find However, after reviewing a sampling of by Georgia Young under the hood, such as the propri- add-ons by hand, we found that there Outreach and Communication etary Adobe Primetime add-on, which was a fair number of add-ons that had What role would you like for de- Coordinator is based on the W3C draft specifi- incorrect licensing information listed, signers in free software? GPG key ID: 48A8254C n January, I joined the FSF staff as cation for baking DRM into HTML5 and in some cases the add-ons were, in I think that designers should play two 3 Ioutreach and communications coor- via its Encrypted Media Extension. fact, proprietary. major roles in the free software world. dinator. In this role, I make sure all of GNU IceCat is committed to slamming To solve this problem, Free Software The first is helping projects focus on the communications that FSF staffers shut and rooting out backdoors and Directory volunteers are making a con- user experience. Long gone are the create — mostly writing, but also im- other malware from Mozilla standard certed effort to add many more IceCat days when free software developers ages and video — are shared with you. releases of Firefox. extensions to the FSD. Driving much would put together a quick interface Have you read a post on fsf.org this of this work is David Hedlund, who and call it a day; now you need de- year? Most likely, I gave it a final has curated lists of hundreds of pop- signers to be included in the process of edit and then published it. Do you ular add-ons for our community of vol- making software from the very begin- get our monthly Free Software Sup- unteers to review and hopefully add to ning. Just take a look at what the peo- porter in your inbox? I compiled it the FSD. David’s approach is creative. ple at GNOME, KDE, and elementary from writings by FSF staff and other His top tier list is browser add-ons with OS are doing right now and compare it affinity organizations and emailed it to over one million daily users, his second to some years ago. you. Do you read microblogs from FSF tier list have between 100k and 999k The second role is for designers to or on GNU Social daily users, and so on. In addition to drive the development of the very tools or other microblogs? They probably creating these lists, David has made they use. It’s easier said than done, came from me, too. over a thousand edits and has added but if designers are the ones using the As the newest member of the many new packages and pages to the software, it’s logical for them to set the staff, starting only eight weeks be- FSD over the past few months. priorities. As designers we need good, fore LibrePlanet 2015, I had to get One interesting consequence of this up-to-date tools, and the free software up to speed fast. One particularly work, and other work being done on world will benefit when our tools are challenging and interesting aspect of In fact, GNU IceCat only recom- the Free Software Directory, is that able to compete better with the pro- my work is managing translation from mends installing free software add-ons. it doesn’t just result in a bigger and prietary options that dominate graphic English — the primary language the IceCat has replaced the Mozilla add- better catalog of free software on the design. ons search with GNU IceCat page FSD. In their quest to add new en- FSF uses for communication — to from the FSF’s Free Software Direc- Spanish, French, and at least a dozen tries to the FSD, contributors often What inspires you in the design tory (FSD) — which lists all of the other languages. Just about every end up submitting bug fixes or filing world? IceCat add-ons that have been re- bug reports to other projects, to elimi- translation of anything on fsf.org, in- viewed and added to the FSD so far, nate nonfree bugs that are preventing a What inspires me are the creative so- cluding the subtitles for our User Lib- which, at this point in time isn’t nearly package from being listed in the FSD. lutions to different problems, whether 19dribbble.com/Glennz as many as we would like, and not And when we add a new package to they are life problems or design prob- 20github.com/gnome-design-team 21 3 the FSD, we encourage FSD contribu- lems. I especially love creative logos dribbble.com/0rax0 defectivebydesign.org/ 220rax0.deviantart.com no-drm-in-html5 tors to notify its maintainers. After all, and punny illustrations. I like the one thing most free software develop-

4 9 Interview: Graphic ers agree upon (and there isn’t much Free Software Foundation. To mark we agree upon!) is that it is nice to this milestone, we are planning a new designer Reda Lazri know others appreciate and show in- edition of his book of collected essays, by Zak Rogoff terest in the software we are making. currently in its second edition. This Campaigns Manager GNU IceCat add-ons are just one new edition will feature the same core GPG key ID: B5090AC8 of the many ways we are improving essays from the second edition, shed hile working on multimedia proj- the Free Software Directory on a day- others, and incorporate articles writ- Wects at the FSF, I’ve had the to-day basis. If you are interested in ten more recently. It will clarify issues privilege of working with graphic de- learning more, visit directory.fsf. of morality regarding digital hardware, signers in our community. org/wiki/FSD:Participate to learn address the threat of mass surveillance, I respect them due to the unique how to get started, or stop by IRC describe the various ways our freedoms challenges they face: they are often during our weekly Friday Free Software are still being curtailed in spite of the outsiders to the general graphic de- Directory IRC Meeting. See fsf.org/ advances the free software movement sign community, which is so firmly blogs/directory for details on the has made, educate us about new and in the grips of Adobe’s proprietary Reda’s logo for Lollypop, a GPL-licensed next meeting. ever more ingenious challenges we face programs like Photoshop and Illustra- music player. Special thanks to our FSD vol- every day, and offer clear directives for tor that most professionals don’t even unteers and contributors, as well as how we may share freely again with one bother trying free software tools. to Rub´en Rodr´ıguez for maintaining another and reclaim our privacy and I recently spoke with Reda Lazri, and go back to Windows. I kept go- GNU IceCat and other important free control of our own computing. a free software graphic designer from ing back and forth until I fell in love software projects. Please write to rms-assist@gnu. Algeria who created our logo for 17 with the Tango icon set, (a stan- Finally, if you haven’t done so al- org with any photographs you would LibrePlanet 2015, as well as the visual dalone project to help create a con- 4 16 ready, download GNU IceCat now. like us to share on RMS’s blog at identity of the 2014 Giving Guide. sistent graphical user interface experi- fsf.org/blogs/rms, or with record- ence for free software) and decided to 18 ings of his speeches for our audio-video Tell us about yourself give Ubuntu another spin so I could On the road with RMS archive audio-video.gnu.org, or to use the icons properly. It was mature by Jeanne Rasata I’m twenty-nine years old and a self- invite RMS to speak. See u.fsf.org/ enough at that time for it to become Assistant to the President taught freelance designer from Algeria. zi for his confirmed speeches. my only OS. GPG key ID: 08FFB3A4 I mainly design interfaces and logos, Since Windows tools aren’t avail- his past semester, Richard Stall- but I do other things for fun, like able for GNU/Linux I spent a huge Tman continued racking up air desktop customization (themes, wall- amount of time researching their free miles to raise worldwide awareness papers, icons). And I love doing re- replacements. I collected information of the issues surrounding computer designs. and tutorials and followed artists that users’ rights and freedoms. Since I help maintain the graphics side of use free tools just to convince myself November, in addition to giving many the GNOME Firefox theme and have that I could survive without the Adobe interviews and meeting with policy contributed to free software projects oxygen. and decision makers, he’s given forty- like GNOME and LibreOffice. 17 nine speeches in forty-four cities across tango.freedesktop.org 18 eighteen countries and four continents, How did you get interested in free Note that the FSF does not endorse Ubuntu because, in its default configuration, with unflagging energy. software? it includes and recommends nonfree software. While his schedule is as full as in We haven’t formally reviewed elementary OS, I’m a computer geek and there was a also mentioned here, for endorsement. See a any previous year, his 2015 engage- time where I would install GNU/Linux list of distributions we do endorse at gnu.org/ ments will include one of particular sig- and play with it, then get frustrated distros/free-distros. nificance, as we will celebrate thirty years of the charity he founded, the 16fsf.org/givingguide/2014 Visit u.fsf.org/internships to apply. 4gnu.org/s/gnuzilla

8 5 Demystifying copyleft need to share and modify your work, But Copyleft.org is more than just our reference manual.8 Following the by Chrissie Himes but that every downstream user has a collaboration between the FSF and smash hit Run GCC novelty t-shirt,9 Operations Assistant those same rights. The GNU Affero the Software Freedom Conservancy: it GNU Press is now selling the design as GPG key ID: 351A0C29 General Public License (AGPLv3) is is a community effort. Its tutorial and a sticker.10 Donald Robertson, III also a strong copyleft license like the guide consist of over 150 pages of useful This past spring, the FSF also Copyright and Licensing GPL, but with an additional provi- information, but it takes quite a bit of held our annual LibrePlanet confer- Associate sion that ensures that users interact- work to maintain. We invite everyone ence in Cambridge, Massachusetts. GPG key ID: 6F3E89B7 ing with modified versions of the code to help update and revise the guide. LibrePlanet is a celebration of software opyright is the legal mechanism af- via a network have the opportunity to You don’t need to be a legal whiz kid developers, policy experts, activists, Cforded to the authors of original receive the source code. Finally, the to help out; one of the biggest tasks and computer users engaged in software creative works, such as books, music, GNU Lesser General Public License to take on is copy editing. Every pull freedom. You can still buy a com- and software. Under 17 U.S. Code § (LGPLv3) is a weak copyleft license. 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In ad- sign.12 The most common uses of the copyrighted work publicly. dition to information provided by the a TRNG include generating crypto- Copyleft is a tool that works within FSF via our licensing portal,5 there is graphic keys, input for a simulation, copyright law, easing the process of li- now another great resource for learning and games (including video games and censing creative works to be used, re- about copyleft licensing: Copyleft.org. slot machines). For more informa- tooled, and/or shared. For instance, Copyleft.org is a collaborative proj- tion about the NeuG USB, you can you may have a new piece of software ect run jointly by the FSF and the Sharable badges at u.fsf.org/badges. read this analysis: fsf.org/blogs/ that you would like the general public Software Freedom Conservancy6 that gnu-press/neug-trng. to be able to build upon and fix bugs pools and shares information about For the latest news about the shop, within. But under U.S. copyright law copyleft. 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