Stallman on GPLv3, DRM, patents, and Q&A

coriordan writes “The Future of Free Software was the name of a recent GPLv3 event in Turin, Italy.
Richard Stallman gave the keynote speech and spoke on DRM, software patents, licence
compatibility and other issues for which changes are being proposed to the GPL. A
transcript and recordings is now online. Sections:

1. First, a note on “intellectual property”
2. On to the GPLv3
3. About “or any later version” and
   transitioning between versions
4. Software patents: explicit patent grants
5. The four freedoms of Free Software
6. Digital Restrictions Management: how it was tackled
   without restricting usage or modification
7. DRM and laws about effective restriction measures
8. Licence compatibility
9. Compatibility with Affero – addressing web services, if you want
10. Compatibility
    with two kinds of patent retaliation
11. The draft GPLv3 does contain
    a very limited patent retaliation clause
12. Requirements for notifying users
    of the licence terms
13. Question 1: What about Linux?
14. Question 2: About dynamic linking and languages
15. Question 3a: What if someone
    thinks the spirit has been changed?
16. Question 3b: Can
    writing Free Software beat DRM or is lobbying needed? (Stallman’s
    answer discusses democracy)
17. Question 4: Who is involved in the process?
18. Question 5: Why is there not a team running
    it instead of you, and who will run it next time?
19. Question 6: What ideas for GPLv3
    were rejected?

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