Free Speech, Free Sklyarov: A Community Declaration

Julian Catchen plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:39:06 -0400


Since there has been some talk about Dmitry Sklyarov on this list,
I thought some of you would be interested in signing a declaration 
against the DMCA.  So far, 5329 people have signed the declaration, 
including the following:

Larry Augustin - CEO and Chairman, VA Linux Systems
Jeff Bates - Executive Editor, Slashdot.org
Brian Behlendorf - President, Apache Software Foundation, CTO Collab.net
Chris DiBona - Grant Chair, Linux International
Miguel de Icaza - Co-Founder and CTO, Ximian Inc.
Nat Friedman - Co-Founder and VP Product Development, Ximian Inc.
Marty Garbus - Attorney, Frankfurt, Garbus, Kurnit, Klein & Selz, PC
Jon "Maddog" Hall - Executive Director, Linux International
Ed Hernstadt - Attorney, Frankfurt, Garbus, Kurnit, Klein & Selz, PC
Lawrence Lessig - Board Memember EFF and Professor of Law, Stanford Univ.
Nils Lohner - President, Software in the Public Interest
Rob Malda - Founder and Editor, Slashdot.org
Don Marti - Technical Editor, Linux Journal
Bruce Perens - Primary Author, "The Open Source Definition"
Eric S. Raymond - President, Open Source Initiative
Lawrence Rosen - Attorney, Rosenlaw.com and Exec Dir, Open Source Initiative
David Sifry - Co-Founder, LinuxCare, Inc.
Shari Steele - Executive Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Brad Templeton - Chairman Electronic Frontier Foundation
Linus Torvalds - Lead Kernel Developer, Linux
Art F. Tyde - CEO, Linuxcare
Bob Young - Co-Founder and Chairman, Red Hat, Inc.


If you are interested, you can find it here:
http://www.dibona.com/dmca/index.shtml


----julian

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