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<title>How the Swedish Pirate Party Platform Backfires on Free Software
- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
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<h2>How the Swedish Pirate Party Platform Backfires on Free Software</h2>
-<p>by <a href="http://www.stallman.org/">Richard Stallman</a></p>
+<address class="byline">by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/">Richard
+Stallman</a></address>
-<blockquote>
+<div class="introduction">
<p>
Note: each Pirate Party has its own platform. They all call for
reducing copyright power, but the specifics vary. This issue may
not apply to the other parties' positions.
</p>
-</blockquote>
+</div>
<p>The bullying of the copyright industry in Sweden inspired the
launch of the first political party whose platform is to reduce
@@ -63,12 +71,12 @@ code, not after 5 years or even 50 years. The Free World would get
the bad, but not the good. The difference between source code and
object code and the practice of using EULAs would give proprietary
software an effective exception from the general rule of 5-year
-copyright &mdash; one that free software does not share.</p>
+copyright&mdash;one that free software does not share.</p>
<p>We also use copyright to partially deflect the danger of software
-patents. We cannot make our programs safe from them &mdash; no
+patents. We cannot make our programs safe from them&mdash;no
program is ever safe from software patents in a country which allows
-them &mdash; but at least we prevent them from being used to make the
+them&mdash;but at least we prevent them from being used to make the
program effectively nonfree. The Swedish Pirate Party proposes to
abolish software patents, and if that is done, this issue would go
away. But until that is achieved, we must not lose our only defense
@@ -109,10 +117,11 @@ avoid a prejudicial effect specifically against free software. There
may be other solutions that would also do the job. One way or
another, the Pirate Party of Sweden should avoid placing a handicap on
a movement to defend the public from marauding giants.</p>
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<p>Please send general FSF &amp; GNU inquiries to
@@ -130,19 +139,19 @@ to <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org">&lt;webmasters@gnu.org&gt;</a>.</p>
to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org">
&lt;web-translators@gnu.org&gt;</a>.</p>
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Please see the <a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
-README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and contributing translations
of this article.</p>
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@@ -157,20 +166,20 @@ of this article.</p>
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Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
-<p>Copyright &copy; 2009 Richard Stallman</p>
+<p>Copyright &copy; 2009, 2012, 2021 Richard Stallman</p>
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-href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/">Creative
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<p class="unprintable">Updated:
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-$Date: 2014/04/12 12:40:34 $
+$Date: 2021/09/19 16:26:24 $
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</p>
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