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07 August 2019

REUSE helps developers to declare copyright and licensing of their projects. Today, the REUSE project released version 3.0 of their specification. The new edition is accompanied by a helper tool and makes adopting the best practices easier than ever.

The Impact of Free Software on competition by Prof. Dr. Simon Schlauri

06 August 2019

Do public administrations distort the market through the release of Free Software? An article by Prof. Dr. Simon Schlauri about the legal and economic arguments resulting from this question and originally written for our Public Money? Public Code - policy brochure.

FSFE Newsletter - July 2019

24 July 2019

In this month's newsletter, we pay special attention to our new Testimonials page and the freshly prepared summary of the FSFE's annual Legal Licensing Workshop that took place in Barcelona. Further down, you can discover the upcoming events we are participating in and hosting, as well as see some visual details about how and where we managed to promote and extend the use of Free Software around Europe.

FSFE Newsletter - June 2019

27 June 2019

This month's newsletter highlights the Google/Huawei case and the greater picture it reveals to us. In the Get Active section we call for your proactivity in promoting the use of Free Software. Additionally, you can find out what happened at our Web-a-thon in Frankfurt am Main and view some media of the actions we have taken for promoting and increasing the awareness of Free Software to the wider audience, as well as see what's planned for the near future, where you can take part in.
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The FSFE with an assembly at the Chaos Communication Camp in Mildenberg, Germany

21 to 25 August 2019

The FSFE will be present with an assembly and an information booth at the Chaos Communication Camp 2019 in Mildenberg, Germany. The FSFE assembly will be part of the about:freedom village and is hosted for and by our members, friends and supporters to offer a common space to discuss, meet, hack and organise. Let's put the hacking back into politics!

FSFE talk on sustainability of software at the CCC camp in Mildenberg, Germany

21 August 2019

Erik Albers, Programme Manager of the FSFE, talks "About the sustainability of Software" at the Chaos Communication Camp. Software is essential part and resource of our service and knowledge organisation just as our infrastructures. Based on this finding, the talk reflects the special characteristics of the "Resource Software" and how to use it to create sustainable software, ready to be preserved for the future. The talk is at 21 in the Three Headed Monkey Village. The camp is sold out but there will be a live-stream as well as a recording

The FSFE "Freedom to go" workshop at the CCC camp in Mildenberg, Germany

23 August 2019

At the Chaos Communication Camp Erik Albers, Programme Manager of the FSFE, gives a workshop about "Freedom to go": After a short introduction about possible (non-existing) freedoms in Android and its Custom ROMs the workshop will explain functions and possible usage of F-Droid and G-Droid as well as the best (according to his opinion) android-based Free Software apps including methods of anonymization and encryption. The workshop's format is an interactive one and participants are asked to present their own favorite apps. The workshop will be at 15:00 in the cluster about:freedom, the camp is sold out.

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