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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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+ | '''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: | ||
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* 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?== | ||
− | * | + | * 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]] | ||
+ | * [[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 | ||
− | * [ | + | * [http://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130422-01.en.html FSFE press release] |
** [https://lwn.net/Articles/548187/ LWN discussion] | ** [https://lwn.net/Articles/548187/ LWN discussion] | ||
+ | * {{translate de|url=http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/?p=1034|title=Software patents hearing in the Bundestag legal committee}}, 23 May 2013, '''FSFE''' | ||
+ | ** {{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] | ||
+ | ** {{translate de|url=http://wiki.fsfe.org/mk/BundestagAnhoerung2013SoftwarepatenteNotizen|title=FSFE's notes of their oral presentation}} | ||
+ | * {{translate de|url=http://www.ifross.org/artikel/deutscher-bundestag-gegen-softwarepatente|title=German parliament against software patents}} | ||
+ | * {{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) | ||
+ | * {{lang de}} [http://dip.bundestag.de/btd/17/130/1713086.pdf Bundestag joint motion to German government] | ||
+ | ** [http://l.fsfe.org/bikt-swpat-en.pdf English translation by BIKT] | ||
+ | ** [https://fsfe.org/news/2013/news-20130612-01.en.html German Parliament tells government to strictly limit patents on software], '''[[FSFE]]''' | ||
+ | * [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.
Contents
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
- Free Software Foundation Europe
- BIKT - IT trade organisation (Bundesverband Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie)
External links
- (in German) The petition text, as transferred to the committees
- German original: Parliamentary report, 19 April 2013 (English translations[?]: Google, bing translator) - item "Tagesordnungspunkt 17" is the vote to send the petition to the three committees
- FSFE press release
- German original: Software patents hearing in the Bundestag legal committee (English translations[?]: Google, bing translator), 23 May 2013, FSFE
- (in German) FSFE's written statement for the hearing
- German original: FSFE's notes of their oral presentation (English translations[?]: Google, bing translator)
- German original: German parliament against software patents (English translations[?]: Google, bing translator)
- German original: BIKT calls to protect copyright from patents (English translations[?]: Google, bing translator)
7 June 2013
- German original: Bundestag press release (English translations[?]: Google, bing translator) (See the 7th resolution)
- (in German) Bundestag joint motion to German government
- Slashdot story and comments