[Solar-general] Lessig fue elegido como director de la FSF

Mie Abr 14 11:46:53 CEST 2004

Hola, les dejo información sobre un nuevo director (leadership) de la FSF.
saludos, Ariel
 http://member.fsf.org/leadership.html

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Monday 12 April 2004

FSF is pleased to announce that on Sunday 28 March 2004, Lawrence Lessig was
elected to the Foundation's Board of Directors. Professor Lessig is based at
Stanford University, and is the author of many key books on the ideas about
freedom in the digital age, including his recently published book Free
Culture. Professor Lessig has been a strong supporter of FSF for many years,
and previously won FSF's Award for the Advancement of Free Software for his
extensive work educating the public about the important issues of freedom in
the digital age.

FSF focuses much energy today on the greatest threat yet to software
freedom, which comes in the form of legal threats to the GNU General Public
License (GPL) and the legal systems whereby GPL'd software is assembled.
Eben Moglen (professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University),
since his early work with Richard Stallman in GPL enforcement during the
1990s, and even further since joining FSF's Board in July 2000, has led the
fight for the freedom of Free Software on legal grounds. FSF welcomes
Professor Lessig to the Board and to the team begun by Professor Moglen to
neutralize the legal threats brought against the freedom of Free Software.

The academic legal world has just begun to realize the innovation and vision
provided by copyleft licensing that FSF invented. FSF is proud that the two
most prominent academic legal minds on this subject both now serve as
Directors of the organization.

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With the addition of Professor Lessig, FSF now has six Directors. They are:

Geoffery Knauth, Senior Software Engineer at SFA, Inc.
Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Stanford University
Eben Moglen, Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University
Henri Poole, Founder of CivicActions, a grassroots campaign technology
consulting firm.
Richard M. Stallman, Founder of FSF and the GNU Project and author of the
GNU GPL, Versions 1 and 2
Gerald J. Sussman, Professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology