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[FYI] European working group on libre software
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- Subject: [FYI] European working group on libre software
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@t-online.de>
- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 21:09:50 +0200
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European working group on libre software
The working group on libre software was created at the initiative of
the Information Society Directorate General, with the purpose to
analyze the free software phenomenon, create a set of recommendations
for the Community and create a paper to be presented to the
Commission. The group featured both people from the Commission and
representative members from the EU countries. After several meeting,
the group finalized a paper, edited by Carlo Daffara and Jesús M.
González-Barahona and presented at the IST'99 conference in Helsinki,
during the special session track on libre software. The 1.0 version
(work-in-progress) of the paper is available for download at the
following location in PDF format: paper.pdf, LaTeX format paper-
1.0.tex, (bibliography file:paper.bib) and in html: paper A mailing
list has been prepared for the further discussion of the issue
connected with open source, subscription is available by writing at
the address freesw-request@conecta.it with the subject "subscribe".
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See in particular also
http://eu.conecta.it/paper.pdf
http://eu.conecta.it/paper-1.0.tex