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After the city of #Barcelona and the Parliament of #Asturias now the Municipality of #Benigànim, #Spain, commits to the principles of our #publiccode campaign by publishing any publicly financed software development as #FreeSoftware. They also plan to gradually switch to Free Software in all municipal facilities.

http://www.beniganim.es/noticia/lajuntament-beniganim-utilitzara-programari-lliure-dispositius-mobils-produits-duna-forma-etica-sostenible

In our sixth episode of the Software Freedom Podcast we invited Dr. Miriam Ballhausen to talk with us about copyright enforcement. She is a German lawyer with the focus on software, #DataProtection, copyright law and specifically #FreeSoftware copyright.

https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-6.en.html

Against strong recommendations by #WHO, #Denmark does not publish their #Corona tracing app as #FreeSoftware. This is counterproductive: keeping the app proprietary eliminates transparency, effective reviews and trust.

https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200629-01.html

#Smittestop #PublicCode #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #FSFE

Router Freedom in Europe +++ Hamburg pro Free Software +++ European Parliament too

In our June #Newsletter read among other things about #RouterFreedom in #Europe, about a new coalition agreement in #Hamburg that puts a focus on #FreeSoftware and about the #EuropeanParliament demanding #publiccode. As always, also read about our diverse community activities.

Available in EN, ES, FR, IT, NL

https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202006.html

++ Hamburg wants to focus more on Free Software ++

In #Hamburg, the #SPD and the #Greens are stating in their coalition agreement to focus more on #FreeSoftware during their future term. Although the coalition agreement contains several loopholes, for example for procurement procedures and diffuse justification to protect proprietary software vendors, the #FSFE still welcomes the step forward and will critically monitor its implementation.

https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200610-01.html

Router Freedom challenged by new European rules

From 21 June a new set of rules will guide the implementation of Router Freedom in Europe. The internalisation of the rules by the 27 EU member states will face challenges with negative consequences for Router Freedom. The FSFE contributed to several improvements of the guidelines and will monitor compliance with them.

https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200601-01.html

Hrvatski: dostupan! Web-stranica #publiccode dostupna je na još jednom jeziku zahvaljujući @mdimjasevic. Potpišite otvoreno pismo kako bi javan novac bio usmjeren u javan kôd i proširite glas!

https://publiccode.eu/hr/

The FSFE #Newsletter May is out including our demand to publish the results of publicly financed #hackathons as #FreeSoftware +++ #Munich supporting #publiccode +++ new #podcasts +++ Corona tracing apps under a FreeSoftware licence

https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202005.html

After the last government of SPD and CSU had distanced itself from the prior progressive #FreeSoftware strategy, the new coalition agreement in Munich commits to the principle of "Public Money? #PublicCode !". The FSFE welcomes this decision by the new government and will closely monitor the progress of the implementation.

https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200506-01.html

The FSFE has joined the Advisory Board of #NGIPointer, an initiative from the #European #Commission to provide #funding and expertise to #FreeSoftware projects that help improve the Internet as a platform. Call for applications is open until 1 June 2020:

https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200427-01.html

In an open letter to the Parliament, the #Dutch #minister for internal affairs Raymond Knops commits to a "#FreeSoftware by default" #policy and underlines its benefits for society. Current market regulations shall be reworded to allow publishing Free Software by the government.:

https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200424-01.html

In our special episode of the Software Freedom Podcast we talk about some of the advantages of @gnuhealth and how as a Free health and hospital information system it can and already does help with the current Covid-19 pandemic.

https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-special-1.html

Wenn Dir #SoftwareFreiheit wichtig ist, dann spende bitte heute einen Teil Deines Konferenzbudgets für #FreieSoftware (#OpenSource) Organisationen:

https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20200411-01.html