Free Software Supporter - Issue 87, July 2015

# Free Software Supporter
Issue 87, July 2015

Welcome to the Free Software Supporter, the Free Software Foundation's
monthly news digest and action update -- being read by you and 90,396
other activists. That's 1,397 more than last month!

# Save the date: FSF30, our 30th anniversary celebration, Saturday, October 3

The Free Software Foundation celebrates 30 years this fall, with a
party and other events in Boston and around the world! Mark your
calendars and bookmark fsf.org/fsf30, where we'll share our
celebratory plans -- and invite you to make your own.

# The FSF is hiring: web developer, outreach & communications coordinator, deputy director

We are looking for a full-time, Boston-based web developer to hack on
free software with us as we get ready for our 30th anniversary
celebrations in October.

  * <https://www.fsf.org/news/the-fsf-is-hiring-seeking-a-full...>

We'd also like to add a new Boston-based role on our leadership team.
Help shape the FSF's next thirty years!

  * <https://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-announc...>

Our outreach and communications coordinator, Georgia Young, has taken
on a new role within the campaigns team: program manager. We're
looking for a detail-oriented, Boston-based free software enthusiast
to fill her shoes.

  *
<https://www.fsf.org/news/the-fsf-is-hiring-a-full-time-ou...>

## TABLE OF CONTENTS

* May 2015: RMS in Brest, Athens, Heraklion, and Chania 
* The many-headed monster of international trade agreements: TPP, TTIP, TISA, and CETA 
* Introducing Adam Leibson: summer campaigns intern 
* Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer added to license list
* One year of encryption with the Email Self-Defense guide
* MediaGoblin 0.8.0: A gallery of fine creatures 
* Introducing Stephen Mahood, system administrator 
* Meet the DRM drones: help us shame these anti-freedom lobbyists
* Recommendations from the National Council on Digital Technology should be
  ratified in the digital bill
* Free software perspectives on the EU Parliament's adoption of the Reda Report
* French state IT looks to take example from free software
* TiSA: the trade agreement that would prohibit free software mandates
* LibrePlanet featured resource: Incomplete pages
* Two GCC releases in June
* GNU Spotlight with Brandon Invergo: 26 new GNU releases!
* GNU Toolchain Update
* Richard Stallman's speaking schedule and other FSF events
* Thank GNUs!
* Take action with the FSF!
* GNU copyright contributions

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### May 2015: RMS in Brest, Athens, Heraklion, and Chania 

*From June 29th*

In May 2015, RMS traveled to and spoke at the Université de
Bretagne Occidentale in Brest, France and to Greece, where he
spoke at Commons Fest in Athens, at the Natural History Museum of
Crete, in Heraklion, and at the Technical University of Crete, in
Chania. Here are some photos from his travels.

  * <https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/201505-brest-athens-herakli...>

### The many-headed monster of international trade agreements: TPP, TTIP, TISA, and CETA 

*From June 23rd*

While the threat of TPP draws ever closer, there are other trade
agreements on the horizon that will prove equally malicious to user
freedom. You can still make a difference by fighting back.

  *
<https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/the-many-headed-monst...>

### Introducing Adam Leibson: summer campaigns intern 

*From June 22nd*

Hello free software supporters, my name is Adam Tobias Leibson. I've
been an avid GNU/Linux user since my first year of high school. Around
that time, I read Cory Doctorow's book *Little Brother*. That book
challenged me to think more deeply about the effects of mass
surveillance on society, and brought about my interests in privacy and
cryptography.

  * <https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/introducing-adam-leib...>

### Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer added to license list

*From June 8th*

We recently updated our list of various licenses and comments about
them to include the Historical Permission Notice and
Disclaimer(HPND). The HPND is a simple permissive license, compatible
with all versions of the GPL.

  *
<https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/historical-permission...>

### One year of encryption with the Email Self-Defense guide 

*From June 5th*

Two years ago, Edward Snowden tipped the first domino in a chain that
led to a historic international conversation about the role of
surveillance in modern life. One year ago, we launched Email
Self-Defense, an infographic and guide to encrypting your email with
free software to protect your privacy and resist bulk
surveillance. Since then, Email Self-Defense has been translated into
ten languages. If you've been putting off setting up encryption, or
know someone who might like your help setting it up, this anniversary
is a great occasion to do it!

  * <https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/one-year-of-encryptio...>

### MediaGoblin 0.8.0: A Gallery of Fine Creatures 

*From June 4th*

We’re excited to announce that MediaGoblin 0.8.0, “A Gallery of
Fine Creatures”, has been released! The biggest news is that the
client to server API (making use of the future federation API) is
much improved! That means that users no longer have to depend on
a browser to access MediaGoblin. You can access and post to your
MediaGoblin instance via any of several Pump.io compatible
clients, like Pumpa and Dianara (or write your own using PyPump)!

  * <http://mediagoblin.org/news/mediagoblin-0.8.0-gallery-of-...>

### Introducing Stephen Mahood, system administrator 

*From June 3rd*

System administrator Stephen Mahood (marxistvegan on IRC) talks about
how he got interested in free software and what he was doing before he
joined the staff of the Free Software Foundation.

  * <https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/introducing-stephen-ma...>

### Meet the DRM drones: help us shame these anti-freedom lobbyists

*From June 2nd*

These DRM offenders tried to squelch anti-circumvention
exemptions; let them know that DRM is always wrong.

  * <https://www.defectivebydesign.org/meet-the-drm-drones>

### Recommendations from the National Council on Digital Technology should
be ratified in the digital bill

*From April, June 26th*

On June 18th, 2015, the French government revealed its digital
strategy. On this occasion, the Conseil National du Numérique
(National Digital Council) also submitted its report "Digital
Ambition". The latter presents, among its proposals, the
recommendation of giving priority to free software in public
procurement, a priority that April encourages the government to write
into the future bill.

### Free software perspectives on the EU Parliament's adoption of the Reda Report

In June, the European Union Parliament's legal affairs committee
adopted a copyright reform proposal put forth by Parliament member
Julia Reda, of the German Pirate Party. The report's recommendations
included making copyright exceptions (similar to "fair use" in the
U.S.) uniform across all EU member states, shortening the term of
copyright, and several measures that resist digital restrictions
management -- but some of these recommendations were struck, including
the call for EU-wide copyright exceptions. Here, we share the
perspectives of April and FSFE.

*From April, June 16th*

  * <https://www.april.org/en/anti-drm-proposals-torn-shreds-v...>

*From FSFE, June 16th*

  * <https://fsfe.org/news/2015/news-20150616-01.en.html>

### French state IT looks to take example from free software

*By April, June 3rd*

Jacques Marzin, Director of DISIC (the French interministerial
directorate for information systems and communication), wishes to
strengthen and extend the public services' strategy with respect to
free software. April welcomes this and encourages the government to
give DISIC the means necessary to implement this strategy.

  * <https://www.april.org/en/french-state-it-looks-take-examp...>

### TiSA: the trade agreement that would prohibit free software mandates

*By April, June 3rd*

On May 27, 2015 a a new leak of TiSA (Trade in Services Agreement) was
published. TiSA is an international agreement currently negotiated
behind closed doors by 50 countries, including the EU and the US. In
this version, an article explicitly prevents a country to give
priority to free software. April denounces this text and asks European
governments to reject those dangerous and opaque negotiations.

  * <https://www.april.org/en/tisa-trade-agreement-would-prohi...>

### Join the FSF and friends in updating the Free Software Directory

*From June 24th*

Tens of thousands of people visit directory.fsf.org each month to
discover free software. Each entry in the Directory contains a wealth
of useful information, from basic category and descriptions to version
control, IRC channels, documentation, and licensing. The Free Software
Directory has been a great resource to software users over the past
decade, but it needs your help staying up-to-date with new and
exciting free software projects.

To help, join our weekly IRC meetings on Fridays. Meetings take place
in the #fsf channel on irc.gnu.org, and usually include a handful of
regulars as well as newcomers. Everyone's welcome.

The next meeting is Friday, July 10th from 2pm to 5pm EDT (19:00 to
22:00 UTC). Details here:

  * <https://www.fsf.org/blogs/directory/friday-free-software-...>

After this meeting, you can check <https://www.fsf.org/events> to see
the rest of this month's weekly meetings as they are scheduled.

### LibrePlanet featured resource: Incomplete pages

Every month on LibrePlanet, we highlight one resource that is
interesting and useful -- and this month, it's one that could use your
help.

For July, we are highlighting Incomplete_pages, which collects all
incomplete pages on LibrePlanet. At the moment, there are many
region-specific user group pages that contain no information. You are
invited to help improve this important resource.

  * <https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Category:Incomplete_pages>

Do you have a suggestion for next month's featured resource? Let us
know at <campaigns@fsf.org>.

### Two GCC releases in June

The GNU Project and the GCC developers have released GCC 4.8.5 and GCC
4.9.3. These releases are both bug-fix releases, containing fixes for
regressions in GCC 4.8.4 and 4.9.2, respectively, relative to previous
releases of GCC.

*From June 26th*

  * <https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/>

*From June 23rd*

  * <https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/>

### GNU Spotlight with Brandon Invergo: 26 new GNU releases!

26 new GNU releases in the last month (as of June 24, 2015):

* [datamash-1.0.7](http://www.gnu.org/software/datamash/)
* [easejs-0.2.5](http://www.gnu.org/software/easejs/)
* [electric-9.06](http://www.gnu.org/software/electric/)
* [fisicalab-0.3.5](http://www.gnu.org/software/fisicalab/)
* [freeipmi-1.4.9](http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/)
* [gcal-4](http://www.gnu.org/software/gcal/)
* [gcc-4.8.5](http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/)
* [global-6.5](http://www.gnu.org/software/global/)
* [gnu-c-manual-0.2.4](http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-c-manual/)
* [gnupg-2.1.5](http://www.gnu.org/software/gnupg/)
* [gnu-pw-mgr-1.4](http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-pw-mgr/)
* [gxmessage-3.4.3](http://www.gnu.org/software/gxmessage/)
* [help2man-1.47.1](http://www.gnu.org/software/help2man/)
* [icecat-31.7.0-gnu1](http://www.gnu.org/software/icecat/)
* [inetutils-1.9.4](http://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/)
* [librejs-6.0.9](http://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/)
* [linux-libre-4.1-gnu](http://www.gnu.org/software/linux-libre/)
* [mediagoblin-0.8.0](http://www.gnu.org/software/mediagoblin/)
* [mpfr-3.1.3](http://www.gnu.org/software/mpfr/)
* [octave-4.0.0](http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/)
* [parallel-20150622](http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/)
* [pspp-0.8.5](http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/)
* [screen-4.3.0](http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/)
* [sharutils-4.15.2](http://www.gnu.org/software/sharutils/)
* [sipwitch-1.9.8](http://www.gnu.org/software/sipwitch/)
* [ucommon-6.3.4](http://www.gnu.org/software/ucommon/)

For announcements of most new GNU releases, subscribe to the info-gnu
mailing list: <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu>.

To download: nearly all GNU software is available from
<http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/>, or preferably one of its mirrors from
<http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html>. You can use the url
<http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/> to be automatically redirected to a
(hopefully) nearby and up-to-date mirror.

This month, we welcome Thien-Thi Nguyen as the new maintainer of GNU
Superopt.

A number of GNU packages, as well as the GNU operating system as a
whole, are looking for maintainers and other assistance: please see
<http://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint> if you'd like to
help. The general page on how to help GNU is at
<http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html>.

If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to
offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see
<http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html>.

As always, please feel free to write to us at <maintainers@gnu.org>
with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.

### GNU Toolchain update 

*From June 22nd*

The GNU toolchain refers to the part of the GNU system which is used
for building programs. These components of GNU are together often on
other systems and for compiling programs for other platforms.

  * <https://nickclifton.livejournal.com/19522.html>

### Richard Stallman's speaking schedule

For event details, as well as to sign-up to be notified for future
events in your area, please visit <https://www.fsf.org/events>.

So far, Richard Stallman has the following events this month:

  * July 4, 2015, 10:40-11:40 AM, London, United Kingdom,
[TBD](https://www.fsf.org/events/rms-20150704-london)
  * July 5, 2015, 2:30-4:30 PM, Beauvais, France, ["Une société numérique
libre"](https://www.fsf.org/events/rms-20150705-beauvais)
  * July 6, 2015, 2:00-5:00 PM, Paris, France, ["The free software movement and the GNU
GPL"](https://www.fsf.org/events/rms-20150706-paris)
  * July 7, 2015, 4:00-6:00 PM, Beauvais, France, [Panel, topic
TBD](https://www.fsf.org/events/rms-20150707-beauvais)
  * July 8, 2015, 7:00-9:30 PM, Frankfurt, Germany, ["Free software and your
freedom"](https://www.fsf.org/events/rms-20150708-frankfurt)
  * July 9, 2015, 6:00-9:00 PM, Frankfurt, Germany, ["Copyright vs.
community"](https://www.fsf.org/events/rms-20150709-frankfurt)
  * July 10, 2015, 4:00-6:30 PM, Karlsruhe, Germany, ["A free digital
society"](https://www.fsf.org/events/rms-20150710-karlsruhe)

### Thank GNUs!

We appreciate everyone who donates to the Free Software Foundation,
but we'd like to give special recognition to the folks who have
donated $500 or more in the last month.

  * <https://www.gnu.org/thankgnus/2015supporters.html>

This month, a big Thank GNU to:

  * Justin Baugh
  * Cătălin Frâncu 
  * David Hampton
  * Preston Maness
  * David Morris
  * Shawn the R0ck
  * Hayley Violett

You can add your name to this list by donating at
<https://donate.fsf.org>.

### GNU copyright contributions

Assigning your copyright to the Free Software Foundation helps us
defend the GPL and keep software free. The following individuals have
assigned their copyright to the FSF in the past month:

  * Alain Schneble (Emacs)
  * Erik Krisztian Varga (GCC)
  * Rupert Swarbrick (Emacs)

Want to see your name on this list? Contribute to GNU and assign your
copyright to the FSF.

<https://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#dev>

### Take action with the FSF

Contributions from thousands of individual members enable the FSF's
work. You can contribute by joining at <https://www.fsf.org/join>. If
you're already a member, you can help refer new members (and earn some
rewards) by adding a line with your member number to your email
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  I'm an FSF member -- Help us support software freedom!
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The FSF is also always looking for volunteers
(<https://www.fsf.org/volunteer>). From rabble-rousing to hacking,
from issue coordination to envelope stuffing -- there's something here
for everybody to do. Also, head over to our campaign section
(<https://www.fsf.org/campaigns>) and take action on software patents,
DRM, free software adoption, OpenDocument, RIAA, and more.

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