I've made and put online a transcript of the recent presentation by
RMS about GPLv3:
After making the
previous one, I thought I wouldn't do it again, but they seem more
important now than I had realised.
Quite a number of people sent thanking emails, which is nice,
particularly those who speak English as a second language seem to like
the text transcripts.
Wason Liwlompaisan translated the last transcript into
Thai!
A number of mainstream news sites picked
it
up, and maybe some offline ones did too.
The last one also made
slashdot and other community sites.
So far this latest transcript has only been online for 4 hours and
it's already on LWN, and
on
Groklaw.
I was already aware that it would be useful because text can be
indexed by websearch engines, and it can be grepped and searched by
people, and read by people who can't hear, but the interest from the
news sites has been a surprise.
Twelve months is a long consultation process, but it's important that
everybody hears about it and therefore has a chance to take a look and
make any comments they have. The changes being proposed are quite
comprehensible, so spreading the information that makes the process
accessible is an important thing to do. More texts are available on
the GPLv3
wiki's page for reusable texts.
Update: it's also on Newsforge, and LXer,
and the groklaw story drew 498
comments.
