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<title>Refund4Freedom +++ Legal Corner +++ SFP</title>
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<h1>Refund4Freedom +++ Legal Corner +++ SFP</h1>
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<p>May kept us quite busy attending conferences and with the kick-off of
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the Refund4Freedom initiative. We also went through the issue of the
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threshold of originality for copyrightable source code and talked in our
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latest episode of the Software Freedom Podcast about the tech
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sovereignty debate in the EU.</p>
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<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/original/fa/f2/b7573d95ac6461f1cc2c84c4721f.png"
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alt="Collage of pictures: an illustration of a hand removing a sticker that looks like the Windows logo. Behind it, you can see the word freedom; an image of a computer with some lines of code and the word copyright on top with a question mark; and a picture with info material from the FSFE from stickers to postcards to posters."/>
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</figure>
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<div class="toc">
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<p>Table of contents</p>
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<ul id="toc">
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<li><a href="#quote-of-the-month"><strong>Quote of the Month</strong></a></li>
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<li><a href="#refund"><strong>Refund4Freedom project: Kick off in Italy!</strong></a></li>
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<li><a href="#sfp"><strong>SFP#34: Policy and EU: Tech sovereignty debate in the EU</strong></a></li>
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<li><a href="#legal-corner"><strong>Legal Corner: The threshold of originality for copyrightable source code</strong></a></li>
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<li><a href="#conferences"><strong>At the stages: participating in conferences around Europe</strong></a></li>
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<li><a href="#take-action"><strong>Share your thoughts: why are you supporting Software Freedom?</strong></a></li>
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<li><a href="contribute"><strong>Contribute to our Newsletter</strong></a></li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<h3 id="quote-of-the-month">Quote of the Month</h3>
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<blockquote>
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<p>“It was love at first sight with Ada & Zangemann: stickers on my
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laptop, and a spark in my classroom. The real magic happens when my high
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school students enter primary schools and I tell the younger kids: ‘Go
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on, adopt a big kid.’ You can see their eyes light up with wonder as
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they whisper to each other, connected by curiosity and
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joy"</p><cite>Giacomo Alessandroni, engineer and teacher. Organizer of
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Ada &
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Zangemann readings in Italy with a focus on robotics.</cite>
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</blockquote>
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<h3 id="refund">Refund4Freedom project: Kick off in Italy!</h3>
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<p><a href="https://refund4freedom.org/">Refund4Freedom</a>, a new
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initiative by the Italian Linux Society (ILS) and the Free Software
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Foundation Europe (FSFE) launched on 29 May. This project wants to make
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it easier for computer users to claim refunds for unused pre-installed
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software. By demanding
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refunds for unwanted pre-installed software, Refund4Freedom helps users
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avoid unnecessary costs while encouraging
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device neutrality and user-controlled choices. Refund4Freedom is one of a broader set of activities
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empowering end-users' rights. <a
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href="/news/2025/news-20250529-01.html">More about
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it</a></p>
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<p> By the way, support for Windows 10 ends on 14 October 2025, but the <a
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href="https://endof10.org/">End of 10 campaign</a>, which encourages
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users to
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keep using their current hardware by switching to Free Software
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operating systems, is there to help. The FSFE suopports this initiative.
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</p>
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<h3 id="sfp">SFP#34: Policy and EU: Tech sovereignty debate in
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the EU</h3>
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<p>Dive with us into the inner workings of the European Parliament and
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learn about their approach on technological sovereignty. <a
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href="/news/podcast/episode-34.html">In this 34th
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episode of the Software Freedom Podcast</a>, Alex and Bonnie discuss the
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current debate in the European Union and pay special attention to the
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current European technological sovereignty and digital infrastructure
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INI.</p>
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<h3 id="legal-corner">Legal Corner: The threshold of originality for
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copyrightable source code</h3>
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<p>As a general rule, software source code is by default protected by
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copyright. Copyright holders create Free Software by applying a Free
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Software license to their code. Creative works, such as source code,
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nevertheless must be sufficiently original in nature before they can be
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protected by copyright. Exactly what is this “threshold of originality”,
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and are there types of code that are not automatically protected by
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copyright?</p>
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<p><a href="/news/2025/news-20250515-01.html">Read
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more</a></p>
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<figure>
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<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/original/dc/28/7a4a871476a8de2148ddf0ac86d6.jpg"
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alt="FSFE booth at T-DOSE"/>
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</figure>
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<h3 id="conferences">At the stages: participating in conferences around
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Europe</h3>
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<p>We have been busy in May as we have participated in several
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conferences around Europe: Salmorejo Tech in Córdoba (Spain), DORS/CLUC
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in Zagreb (Croatia), re:publica in Berlin (Germany), Hackmeeting HackIT
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in Cagliari (Italy), and T-DOSE 2025 in Eindhoven (The Netherlands).
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</p>
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<p>Lucas Lasota, FSFE Legal Programme Manager, gave a talk online on 27
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May about how the Digital Markets Act (DMA) relies on interoperability
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as one of its regulatory tool in Art. 6(7).
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</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/original/85/06/8bbae3bcaadf4ae8f89a1a6fe0b7.jpeg"
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alt="Two women and two men sitting at a table and someone on the foreground talking with a microphone"/>
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<figcaption>Gabriel Ku Wei Bin, FSFE Legal Programme Manager, participated in a
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panel discussion on software freedom and machine learning in Warsaw,
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during the local celebrations of 40 years of software freedom.
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</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<p>We will be also busy in June attending events such as DevConf CZ,
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openSuse Conference 2025, and many more... Find out more on <a
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href="/events/events.html">events.fsfe.org</a>!</p>
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<h3
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id="take-action">Share your thoughts: why are you supporting
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Software Freedom?</h3>
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<p>This year, we are celebrating 40 years of software freedom, and we
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want to hear from you about why this is important to you! Send us a
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brief quote to contact@fsfe.org. Tell us why you support it and what it
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means to you! We will use the best ones to update our testimonials page
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and other communication channels!</p>
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<h3 id="contribute">Contribute to our Newsletter</h3>
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<p>We would love to hear from you. If you have any thoughts, pictures,
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or news to share, please send them to us at newsletter@fsfe.org. You can
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also <a href="/donate/donate.html">support us</a>, <a href="/contribute/contribute.html">contribute to our
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work</a>, and <a href="/about/groups.html">join our
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community</a>. We would like to thank our community and all the
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volunteers, supporters, and donors who make our work possible, with a
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special mention to our translators who make it possible for you to read
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this newsletter in your mother tongue. </p>
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<p>Your editor,<br/>
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Ana </p>
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<date>
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<original content="2025-06-03" />
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<tag key="deviceneutrality">Device Neutrality</tag>
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<tag key="windows-tax">Windows Tax</tag>
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<tag key="podcast">Software Freedom Podcast</tag>
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<tag key="legal">Legal</tag>
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<tag key="licensing">Licensing</tag>
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<tag key="legal-corner">Legal Corner</tag>
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<tag key="pmpc">Public Money? Public Code!</tag>
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