[Fsfe-newsfr-en] FSF France news 20/03/2002

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Hello.

Here are the news from FSF France on 20/03/2002.

News FSF France in text (see attachment for HTML with links) :
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||Free Software Foundation Announces Support of the Affero   ||
||General Public License, the First Copyleft License for Web ||
||Services                                                   ||
||19 March 2002. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announces||
||support for and invites public comment on the first public ||
||license designed to protect software distributed as web    ||
||services: the Affero General Public License (AGPL). The    ||
||AGPL combines the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) V2  ||
||with one additional provision to address software used by  ||
||the public over a network. The new provision enables the   ||
||author to ensure that users will have the right to use,    ||
||study, copy, modify, and redistribute that software, by    ||
||providing a mechanism for downloading the source and       ||
||restricting the removal of the mechanism.                  ||
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||Free Software Foundation Offers Resources to the Digital   ||
||Speech Project                                             ||
||18 March 2002. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today    ||
||heralded the launch of the Digital Speech Project: an      ||
||effort to encourage and coordinate activism to protect our ||
||digital freedoms in light of the Digital Millennium        ||
||Copyright Act (DMCA) and similar laws. The FSF has hired a ||
||Digital Freedom Organizer, Jonathan Watterson, to work     ||
||actively on the the Digital Speech Project.                ||
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FSF France News

Free Software Foundation Announces Support of the Affero General Public License, the First Copyleft License for Web Services
19 March 2002. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announces support for and invites public comment on the first public license designed to protect software distributed as web services: the Affero General Public License (AGPL). The AGPL combines the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) V2 with one additional provision to address software used by the public over a network. The new provision enables the author to ensure that users will have the right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute that software, by providing a mechanism for downloading the source and restricting the removal of the mechanism.

Free Software Foundation Offers Resources to the Digital Speech Project
18 March 2002. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today heralded the launch of the Digital Speech Project: an effort to encourage and coordinate activism to protect our digital freedoms in light of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and similar laws. The FSF has hired a Digital Freedom Organizer, Jonathan Watterson, to work actively on the the Digital Speech Project.