Here's an automated translation

Here's an automated translation

Posted Aug 30, 2003 9:57 UTC (Sat) by bockman (subscriber, #3650)
In reply to: Here's an automated translation by dwheeler
Parent article: EU software patent vote delayed

Google made a good enough job. Here is the same translation, with some obvious fixes.

PRESS ENCOUNTER/PRESS CONFERENCE AGAINST the LICENCES SOFTWARE SENT BACK TO THE 12 SEPTEMBER.

The Conference of the Eureopean Parliament General Secretaries has decided some hour ago to move the debate and the vote on the McCarthy report from the initially planned date of September 1 to the second session of september (22 - 25 september); the exact date will be established the next week in Strasburg,.

This is a success for the lobby efforts of the FFII (Foundation for to Free Information Infrastructure, http://ffii.org/) against the report of McCarthy on the suitability of software patents, efforts that we support and invite to support in the ways described on the site of the FFII.

We invite the Italian enterprises to let hear their voice sending a fax addressed to the European parliamentarians, as described at the page http://swpat.xsec.it/. We invite the European parliamentarians to endorse the amendments proposed from the the FFII, that are listed and described to you in detail at http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/prop/#pream

In order to diffuse the knowledge of the problem on software licences, the radical Group to the European Parliament, the CDTI (Managing Clubs Technologies of the Information) and the Association for the Free Software invite citizens and enterprises, regardless of their involvment with free software development, to the encounter/press conference that will be kept at the office of the European Parliament to Rome, in via IV November 149, at 10.30.
The date of the conference, initially established for tomorrow August 29, is POSTPONED OF TWO WEEKS, to September 12. The event is aimed to make the European press and parliamentarians aware of the dangers of the McCarthy directive on the European software licences and will be broadcasted by Radio Radicale. More information on the software licences in Europe in the official press notice ( http://softwarelibero.it/news/20030826-01.shtml ) emitted from the Association for the Free Software. The program of the encounter will be published as soon as available on http://softwarelibero.it/news/20030828-01.shtml , after the text of the present announce.

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