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'''League for Programming Freedom''' ('''LPF''') was set up in 1989 in the [[USA]].  Their initial focus was campaigning against interface copyrights but they adopted a position against [[software patents]] in December 1990.<ref>http://progfree.org/History/history.html</ref>
 
'''League for Programming Freedom''' ('''LPF''') was set up in 1989 in the [[USA]].  Their initial focus was campaigning against interface copyrights but they adopted a position against [[software patents]] in December 1990.<ref>http://progfree.org/History/history.html</ref>
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==Actions==
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The following are just a few of LPF's actions against software patents.
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* Testified at the [[1994 USPTO software patent hearings]]
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* Amicus brief in [[Fortunet v. American Multi-Systems]] [http://progfree.org/Links/prep.ai.mit.edu/ams.amicus]
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{{help|Lots more could be found if someone would go through their [http://progfree.org/Newsletter/newsletter.html newsletters 1991-1995]}}
  
 
==Active members, past and present==
 
==Active members, past and present==

Latest revision as of 09:48, 19 November 2010

League for Programming Freedom (LPF) was set up in 1989 in the USA. Their initial focus was campaigning against interface copyrights but they adopted a position against software patents in December 1990.[1]

Actions

The following are just a few of LPF's actions against software patents.

Can you help? Lots more could be found if someone would go through their newsletters 1991-1995


Active members, past and present

  • Dean Anderson, President (since 1994[2], still/again as of 2009)
  • Aubrey Jaffer, Treasurer (since before 1994[3], still/again as of 2009)
  • Rich Hilliard, Clerk (since 1994[4], still/again as of 2009)
  • Richard Stallman, director (as of 2009)
  • Chris Hofstader, director (as of 2009)
  • Noah Friedman, director (as of 2009), volunteer since 1992[5]
  • Donald Knuth - member[6]
  • Paul Rubin[7]
  • Richard P. Gabriel - spokesman in the early 90s [8]

External links

References