On Monday, October 2, 2017 at 9:45:41 PM UTC+1, Bill Hart wrote: > > There's not much detail on how this could affect Open Source development, > except that GitHub and the like might be forced to implement "flawed > filters". > > But how could this be implemented by GitHub? What are they going to check > projects against? The source code of all the closed source products on the > planet? I think not. > > They are going to be checking for pirated works that have been published > publicly, e.g. movies, books, etc. If these are on GitHub, they shouldn't > be. > > I'd like to see a little more explanation of what exactly is wrong with > the proposed law. Otherwise it sounds like FUD to me. >
well, how about this: https://edri.org/files/copyright/copyright_proposal_article13.pdf > > On Monday, 2 October 2017 10:38:15 UTC+2, Nicolas M. Thiéry wrote: >> >> Dear Sage developers, >> >> Summary: the EU is looking to pass a new copyright act that would >> require sharing platforms to filter for copyright infringements. For >> software sharing platforms like GitHub, GitLab, ... this is very >> problematic and might endanger open source development as we know it. >> >> You may want to read https://savecodeshare.eu/ and sign the open letter >> by the Free Software Foundation Europe to the EU there. >> >> The letter can be signed as an individual or as an organization. >> OpenDreamKit is planning to sign as an organization. Maybe the >> SageMath fundation could sign as an organization as well on behalf of >> the community? (unless of course some SageMath dev would object now). >> >> Cheers, >> Nicolas >> -- >> Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <[email protected]> >> http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/ >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
