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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
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<html newsdate="2018-08-04" type="newsletter">
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<html newsdate="2013-08-06" type="newsletter">
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<head>
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<title>FSFE Newsletter - August 2013</title>
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<h2>Election software: source code available but not Free Software</h2>
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<p>Estonia has used Internet voting for general elections since 2005. Local
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activists have recently managed to convince the NEC to release source code for
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activists have recently managed to convince Estonia's National Electoral Committee (NEC) to release source code for
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some of the software under a non-free licence, but this licence does not permit
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distribution of derivative works or commercial use and therefore is non-free.
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Besides "[i]mportant system components remain completely unknown to the general
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representative in the FSFE's General Assembly in <a
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href="/news/2013/news-20130730-01.html">our press release</a> accompanying
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our <a href="/ee/i-voting/2013-07-26_Open_Letter_to_NEC.html">open letter to
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Estonia's National Electoral Committee (NEC) regarding the country's Internet
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NEC regarding the country's Internet
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voting system</a>.</p>
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<p>Similar in Norway: Paul Boddie reports about the <a
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<h2>NSA leaks motivates Free Software activists</h2>
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<p>For almost two decades the Free Software Foundations have been working for a
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society where the power over technology is (TODO: evenly) distributed. We work
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society where the power over technology is distributed. We work
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for a world in which nobody can prevent others from learning how computers
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work. A world in which programmers can work with each other instead against
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each other. Nobody should be forced to use a certain kind of software without
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