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German parliament petition against software patents
On 19 April 2013, the German parliament (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.
Can you help? Help from German-speakers sought to expand the details and check the terminology
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?
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)
7 June 2013
- German original: {{{title}}} (English translations[?]: Google, bing translator)
- (in German) Bundestag joint motion to German government