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(External links: * [https://lwn.net/Articles/548187/ FSFE press release] (but the motion isn't adopted, they've just agreed to consider it))
(7 June 2013: * [http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/06/12/1552251/german-parliament-tells-government-to-strictly-limit-patents-on-software Slashdot story and comments])
 
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On 19 April 2013, the [[Germany|German]] parliament (Bundestag) approved the sending of an anti-software-patents "petition" (draft motion) to three parliamentary committees.  The three committees will debate this text and propose modifications before returning a final proposal which the parliament will vote on.{{help|Is this correct? Help from German-speakers sought}}
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The page documents a motion which the Bundestag (German parliament) has sent to the German government calling for the problem of software patents to be tackled.
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==Timeline==
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(newest first)
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'''7 June 2013:''' The Bundestag approves a very strong joint motion calling on the government to tackle software patents.
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'''19 April 2013:''' The Bundestag approved the sending of an anti-software-patents "petition" (draft motion) to three parliamentary committees.  The three committees will debate this text and propose modifications before returning a final proposal which the parliament will vote on. The vote to send the text to the committees was approved by a large majority, including the governing parties. The "Rechtsausschuss (f)" is leading in coordination with:
  
The vote to send the text to the committees was approved by a large majority, including the governing parties.  The three committees which will review the text are:
 
 
* A. f. Wirtschaft und Technologie
 
* A. f. Wirtschaft und Technologie
 
* A. f. Bildung, Forschung und Technikfolgenabschätzung
 
* A. f. Bildung, Forschung und Technikfolgenabschätzung
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==What can we do?==
 
==What can we do?==
  
* As Germans to contact members of those committees to support the proposed text?
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* Ask Germans to contact members of those committees to support the proposed text?
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==Organisations supporting the petition==
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* [[Free Software Foundation Europe]]
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* [[BIKT]] - IT trade organisation (''Bundesverband Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie'')
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==
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* {{lang de}} [http://dip.bundestag.de/btd/17/130/1713086.pdf The petition text, as transferred to the committees]
 
* {{lang de}} [http://dip.bundestag.de/btd/17/130/1713086.pdf The petition text, as transferred to the committees]
 
* {{translate de|url=http://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/protokolle/amtlicheprotokolle/2013/ap17234.html|title=Parliamentary report, 19 April 2013}} - item "''Tagesordnungspunkt 17''" is the vote to send the petition to the three committees
 
* {{translate de|url=http://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/protokolle/amtlicheprotokolle/2013/ap17234.html|title=Parliamentary report, 19 April 2013}} - item "''Tagesordnungspunkt 17''" is the vote to send the petition to the three committees
* [https://lwn.net/Articles/548187/ FSFE press release] (but the motion isn't adopted, they've just agreed to consider it)
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* [http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130422-01.en.html FSFE press release]
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** [https://lwn.net/Articles/548187/ LWN discussion]
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* {{translate de|url=http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=1034|title=Software patents hearing in the Bundestag legal committee}}, 23 May 2013, '''FSFE'''
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** {{lang de}} [http://www.bundestag.de/bundestag/ausschuesse17/a06/anhoerungen/archiv/47_Patentierung_von_Computerprogrammen/04_Stellungnahmen/Stellungnahme_Kirschner.pdf FSFE's written statement for the hearing]
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** {{translate de|url=http://wiki.fsfe.org/mk/BundestagAnhoerung2013SoftwarepatenteNotizen|title=FSFE's notes of their oral presentation}}
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* {{translate de|url=http://www.ifross.org/artikel/deutscher-bundestag-gegen-softwarepatente|title=German parliament against software patents}}
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* {{translate de|url=http://www.bikt.de/fokusthemadetail.html?&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=47&cHash=00|title=BIKT calls to protect copyright from patents}}
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===7 June 2013===
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* {{translate de|url=http://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2013/45033928_kw23_angenommen_abgelehnt/index.html|title=Bundestag press release}} (See the 7th resolution)
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* {{lang de}} [http://dip.bundestag.de/btd/17/130/1713086.pdf Bundestag joint motion to German government]
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** [http://l.fsfe.org/bikt-swpat-en.pdf English translation by BIKT]
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** [https://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130612-01.en.html German Parliament tells government to strictly limit patents on software], '''[[FSFE]]'''
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* [http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/06/12/1552251/german-parliament-tells-government-to-strictly-limit-patents-on-software Slashdot story and comments]
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Latest revision as of 18:08, 12 June 2013

The page documents a motion which the Bundestag (German parliament) has sent to the German government calling for the problem of software patents to be tackled.

Timeline

(newest first)

7 June 2013: The Bundestag approves a very strong joint motion calling on the government to tackle software patents.

19 April 2013: The Bundestag approved the sending of an anti-software-patents "petition" (draft motion) to three parliamentary committees. The three committees will debate this text and propose modifications before returning a final proposal which the parliament will vote on. The vote to send the text to the committees was approved by a large majority, including the governing parties. The "Rechtsausschuss (f)" is leading in coordination with:

  • A. f. Wirtschaft und Technologie
  • A. f. Bildung, Forschung und Technikfolgenabschätzung
  • A. f. Kultur und Medien

What can we do?

  • Ask Germans to contact members of those committees to support the proposed text?

Organisations supporting the petition

External links

7 June 2013