Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 31st Aug 2006 18:31 UTC, submitted by anonymous
The 4th international GPLv3 conference is being held at Bangalore and Richard Stallman is one of the prominent delegates. This is a transcript of the interview with RMS where he is asked a couple of questions related to GPLv3 and free software in general.
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There's already something that prevents "full-up multimedia on Linux" from being legal in many jurisdictions: patents and the DMCA and similar legislation (if it exists elsewhere). As such, the GPL3 is an attempt to stop content providers from making such content unavailable on Linux, not the other way around.
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I'd love to know how many folks typically attend these international GPL conferences? I'm wondering whether the article is short-changing us by giving only a glimpse of an important event with, say, 500-1000 international movers and shakers? I doubt the paper would have covered it had there been, say, only 40-50 rank-and-file folks in a student union hall.
Also, if all software is meant to be free, as RMS reminds us, how are these conferences funded?
I just hope GPLv3 doesn't prevent full-up multimedia on Linux because if it does then Linux will lose an awful lot of users.