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Printed manual available for GNU Bash
By brian, Section News
Posted on Sat Jul 19th, 2003 at 15:18:11 GMT
The "GNU Bash Reference Manual" is now available as a printed book (180 pages, ISBN 0-9541617-7-7). It is the official texinfo manual by Chet Ramey and Brian Fox. For each copy sold, $1 will be donated to the Free Software Foundation.

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Report on AFFS 2003 Meeting
By brian, Section News
Posted on Sat Jul 19th, 2003 at 15:17:59 GMT
The Association for Free Software, the UK's Free Software membership organisation, has posted a summary of its AFFS 2003 Conference at Aston University, Birmingham. This was one-day event held in May, which was free to members, and included talks on systems software, sound, education and community & law -- followed at the end of the day by the official annual general meeting of the association.

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GNU Bayonne OpenH323 Integration at LSM (Metz)
By dyfet, Section French GNU-Friends
Posted on Fri Jul 11th, 2003 at 23:00:17 GMT
Later this week, as part of this year's Libre Software Meeting, being held in Metz, France, I will demonstrate functional GNU Bayonne integration with the OpenH323 stack. This work was largely developed by Mark Lipscombe over the past few months, and should become generally available in preliminary form, along with many other new features, as part of our next major GNU Bayonne release this August, during LinuxWorld in San Francisco.

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Licensing issues with Xfree86's fork
By a member of the hurd, Section GNU-Friends
Posted on Sat Jun 28th, 2003 at 18:49:42 GMT
Licensing issues are being discussed in Xfree86's fork forums. The questions on the presence of propietary software in Xfree86's source tree, or the imposition of licensing all contributions under a non-copylefted license come to place now. One of the most relevant things people could expect of Xfree86's fork is a change in their politics. Wether the Xfree86's fork will inherit the same problems Xfree86 has is something being discussed in the fork's forums at this time.

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European Parliament divided on software patents vote next week
By xdrudis, Section News
Posted on Wed Jun 25th, 2003 at 11:47:49 GMT

The European Parliament Legal Affairs and Internal Market (JURI)[1] committee voted last tuesday on the software patents directive COM(2002)92 [2]. The committee passed the rapporteur's draft with some modifications. The resulting report[3] shows the opposing views in the committee. One third of the members opposed to the report, and only 3 amendments from the opinions of the Industry[4] and Culture[5] committees passed (2 of them despite the opposition of the rapporteur).

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Saturday July 3rd
ˇ New FSFE fund-raising campaign
ˇ Realmedia Helix Player now licensed under the GPL
ˇ PUBPAT seeking technical experts

Saturday June 26th
ˇ New FSF associate membership website
ˇ Redhat releases GFS under the GPL
ˇ FSF seeking system analyst/database guru (contract)
ˇ FFII analysis of new EU constitution, demonstration
ˇ RTAI realtime conference (Milan, 8 July)

Saturday June 19th
ˇ EU elections strengthen patent-critical camp
ˇ Report from Georg Greve in South America

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