{"id":776,"date":"2007-01-23T12:25:12","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T16:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2007\/01\/23\/fsf-outreach-getting-behind-gpl-projec"},"modified":"2007-01-23T12:25:12","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T16:25:12","slug":"fsf-outreach-getting-behind-gpl-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2007\/01\/23\/fsf-outreach-getting-behind-gpl-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"FSF outreach getting behind GPL projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1419'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ethanzuckerman.com\/blog\/?p=1172\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Ethan <\/span>says<\/a> in a recent review of SL&#8217;s relicensing announcement:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px; font-style: italic;\">I am arguing that someone like Charlie Nesson &#8211; who otherwise supports<br \/>\nopen standards and open code &#8211; would be better off supporting open<br \/>\nalternatives to Second Life.<\/div>\n<p>How about a group like the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Free Software Foundation<\/span>, which also emphatically supports open standards and open code?&nbsp; <font size=\"1\">[Note: they would surely prefer to replace &#8220;open&#8221; with &#8220;free&#8221; in that statement, for historical reasons]<\/font> They are enthusisatic about the move by Linden, and are promoting it directly.&nbsp; Do we need standards for how deeply one supports the tenets of freedom &#8212; the ability to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">split <\/span>and recreate a system elsewhere &#8212; the way we needed standards for what it means to be &#8220;free software&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a debate which hilariously highlights the troubles with Second Life, courtesy of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Berkman luncheons<\/span> and YouTube: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=T_akmmr0ReI\">Charlie v. Ethan, Round 1<\/a><span style=\"background-color: rgb(102, 0, 0);\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethan says in a recent review of SL&#8217;s relicensing announcement: I am arguing that someone like Charlie Nesson &#8211; who otherwise supports open standards and open code &#8211; would be better off supporting open alternatives to Second Life. How about a group like the Free Software Foundation, which also emphatically supports open standards and open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-not-so-popular"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-cw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}