[CREATE] Free as in Speech, and Vietnam?

[Louis Desjardins]

2010/6/9 Hong Phuc Dang <hp at gnome.asia>

> Dear all,
>
> @Tor: thank you very much for raising the concern. I agree that
> political part plays a very important role in any international
> conferences.
>

Hi all,

One question has to be explicitely addressed here.

How a country deals with software patents is of great interest to
developers. This is one big reason for quite a few developers to explicitely
exclude the United States of America from being a host for LGM. Basically,
people don’t want to get into judiciary issues while participating is such a
conference.

We have to find out just how friendly (or how threatening) the LGM host
country is to FLOSS in general and to FLOSS developers in particular.

Back in May 2007, we had a discussion on that issue in the Create Mailing
List.

Here is an excerpt of one exchange between Alexandre Prokoudine and Dave
Crossland.

[ AP ] giving proprietary guys even a tiny chance to sue one of
> our developers should never occur.

[ DC ] All developers in the USA are under constant threat of
> patent violation suits for all code they write. Developing free code
> to read/write proprietary file formats has an additional risk of
> breaking the 'technical protection measures' part of the DMCA.


Let’s feed that thread with all relevant information.

Louis

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