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FYI UKUUG is pleased to announce a free evening talk, "Update of the constitution: introduction to GPLv3," presented by Georg Greve, founder and President of FSF Europe. When: Monday 29th May 2006, 18:30 for a 19:00 start Where: Cockcroft Theatre The Manchester Conference Centre Weston Building Sackville Street Manchester M1 3BB Please feel free to extend this invitation to any colleagues or friends you think might like to attend. The talk is open to all and there's no need to preregister. Abstract: The GNU General Public License (GPL) invented the concept of Copyleft and is the most popular Free Software license today. After many highly successful years for version 2, the GPL is currently being overhauled to meet the needs of the next decade. The presentation will give an introduction to version 3, the changes made, their reasoning and how to participate in the process to make sure GPLv3 will be the best GPL we can collectively create. About the speaker: In early 2001 Georg Greve initiated the founding of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE, FSF Europe), the construction and coordination of which has kept him busy on European and global level in past years. Within these activities between technology, politics, society, and economy, Georg Greve was for instance invited as an expert to the "Commission on Intellectual Property Rights" of the UK government and participated in the first phase of the United Nations (UN) World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) on behalf of the German coordination circle of Civil Society within the German governmental delegation. About UKUUG: UKUUG - the UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group - is a non-profit organization and technical forum for the advocacy of open systems, particularly Unix and Unix-like operating systems, the promotion of free and open-source software, and the advancement of open programming standards and networking protocols. Please contact <ukuug@xxxxxxxxx> if you have any questions about this event. ________________________________________________________________________ -- Ray Miller, UKUUG - the UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group http://www.ukuug.org/ - The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html