Free Software Foundation Europe

Free Software Foundation Europe
"Free as in Freedom"

Welcome to the home page of the Free Software Foundation Europe. The FSFE was launched on 10 March 2001 and supports all European aspects of Free Software; especially the GNU Project. We are actively supporting development of Free Software and furthering GNU-based Operating Systems such as GNU/Linux. Also, we provide an assistance centre for politicians, lawyers and journalists in order to secure the legal, political and social future of Free Software.

FSFE's work is made possible by many individual contributions, in particular to the Fellowship of FSFE. One way to contribute is to join now, and to encourage others to do likewise. Latest newsFSFE Newsletter 2007-05-12
Topics: FSFE launches list of recommended Free Software lawyers, FSFE action on IPRED2 "Criminalisation" Directive, Transcript of Richard M. Stallman's speech in Brussels online, FSFE at A2K2 conference in Yale Law School, Georg Greve and Jonas Öberg in Belgrade, Serbia, Ivan Jelic joining European Core Team of FSFE, Merchandise available via web order, Get active: join the translation team!. [Read more...]


European Parliament must prevent criminalisation of software vendors and users 2007-04-23
The FSFE criticises the proposed "second Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive" (IPRED2) for sweeping criminalisation across various areas of law and loosely described areas of activity, including for 'attempting, aiding or abetting and inciting.' The proposed text criminalises these acts for infringement of many dissimilar laws including copyright, trademark, and patents. [Read more...]


FSFE launches list of recommended Free Software lawyers 2007-04-17
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is committed to working with lawyers throughout Europe to maximise the legal security of Free Software and is aware that as the community matures it is important to be able to locate professional legal advice. For this reason FSFE has introduced a new policy for recommending legal experts in individual countries. [Read more...]


FSFE Newsletter 2007-04-13
Topics: FTF introduces useful tips for compliance, Talk about GPLv3 in Brussels, STACS kickoff meeting in Paris, FSFE thanks Google for sponsoring 1 year of internship, Introducing FSFE's new interns, Announcing a new Italian Fellowship meeting. [Read more...]


FSFE Newsletter 2007-03-13
Topics: Fiduicary License Agreement released under GFDL/CC-by-sa, FSFE announces big raffle among all Fellows, FSFE at FOSDEM in Brussels (Belgium), Ciarán O'Riordan at SkyCon in Limerick (Ireland), End of internship of Maria Luisa Carli, System administration murphy weeks, Get Active: Join the SELF project!. [Read more...]



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[RSS] Upcoming eventsFree Software and Beyond 2007-05-16
On Wednesday the 16th of may, the FSFE and Göteborg University, Sweden, invites you to attend a lecture by Richard Stallman on Free Software and Beyond: Human Rights in the Use of Software and Other Published Works. Stallman will speak about the history and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, address how the ideas of Free Software do or don't extend to other kinds of published works and explain what the Pirate Party must change in its program to avoid unintended negative consequences in the software field. [Read more...]


Copyright vs Community 2007-05-17
On thursday the 17th of may, the FSFE and Digifri, Sweden, invites you to attend a lecture by Richard Stallman on Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks. The lecture will take place at Linköping University, room C4 at 17.00.


eLiberatica Conference in Braşov 2007-05-18
2007-05-19
The eLiberatica Conference is the most important romanian event concerning Free Software. It will be held on the 18th and the 19th of May, in Braşov, Romania, and is organized by ROSI, a romanian assocition advocating Free Software, and by Agora Media, a romanian media group. eLiberatica's purpose is to unify pomotion of Free Software throughout Romania, and encouraging its adoption by business through grassroots organization. The conference therefore addresses programmers, university students, and business people. Georg Greve will deliver a talk on Open Standards and Free Competition. [Read more...]


Linuxwochen, Graz, Austria 2007-05-19
On Saturday 19 May 2007 at 9:30, Reinhard Müller holds the keynote for the Linuxwochen event at the University of Applied Sciences "Johanneum" in Graz.
At 11:00 he gives another speech titled "Free Software for a free society" there.
As a part of the same event, the twelfth Austrian Fellowship meeting takes place at 15:00. As usual, all people interested in FSFE or Free Software are invited to this meeting.
The FSFE also has a booth at the event where it informs about its work and about Free Software in general.
Admission is free for the whole event.


LinuxTag 2007, Berlin, Germany 2007-05-30
2007-06-02
FSFE will be present with a booth at LinuxTag 2007, which takes place at Berlin's Expo Center under the Funkturm. FSFE will inform visitors about various aspects of Free Software, like the Freedom Task Force, software patents, the SELF project, GPLv3, or the Fellowship of FSFE. Also it is planned to sell T-Shirts from FSFE and books about Free Software. Please take the opportunity to get informed about Free Software and FSFE.