Initiative for Freedom of Information Act in Germany

As I became aware today, there is a new initiative for something like a Freedom of Information Act in Germany at pro-information.de.

Surprisingly, this apparently has not been communicated a lot, considering the small number of about 2000 signatures so far.

If you feel like Germany should enact a FOIA in order to give citizens, journalists and historians access to all kinds of files of the administration, please support support the pro-information campaign by signing it.

Apparently even shareware authors disrespect the GPL

I just received an email claiming that there is a proprietary shareware program called "DVDxDV" sold for USD 80. The author of the email claims that DVDxDV includes code from the GPL licensed liba52 project (formerly known as ac3dec).

While I didn't do any tests on this alleged infringement (yet), there seems to be more information about this issue on http://gpl-cowboy.blogspot.com/

Maybe I'll find some time to investigate soon...

Interview about my GPL enforcement efforts

The German IT News Portal "golem.de" has just published an Interview with me, entitled "The freedom of the GPL has limitations".

I wish I had sometimes used less complex sentence structures - but hey, I'm not very used to give interviews anyway.

Sorry for you English speaking people out there. I would love to give that interview in English, but no English news portal asked for one ;)