A group of FFII activists have decided to set up big European petitions targeting national legislators of the members of the European Patent Convention to clarify the limitations of patentability.
We are aiming to collect at least 1 million signatures, which implies the support of a large number of associations.
We would like, as the first phase, to collect the names of local associations which will probably support the petition to stop software and business method patents. We are going to contact them for the details on a second phase.
For this we need your help - please go to http://stopsoftwarepatents.eu/
and fill in the data of any organisation of your country which you think would probably support the petition.
Thanks in advance,
Iván Villanueva and Miernik, activists of the FFII and former board members
In Italy Italian Linux Society and Associazione per il Software Libero have already signed the petition, I hope more will support the initiative soon.
http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-84519/slashdot:24-sept-is-world-day-against-software-patents
pieterh writes “Veteran European anti-software campaigners have launched World Day against Software Patents on StopSoftwarePatents.org, writing: “The issue of software patents is a global one, and several governments and patent offices around the world continue to grant software & business method patents on a daily basis; they are pushing for legal codification of the practice, such as currently in New Zealand and India, and via the misappropriation of Free Trade Agreement instruments. We declare the 24 September as the World Day Against Software Patents, in commemoration of the European Parliament First Reading in 2003 with amendments stopping the harmful patenting of software, guaranteeing that software programmers and businesses can safely benefit from the fruits of their work under copyright law.”
http://stopsoftwarepatents.org/