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> Maybe it's a word to strong but globally I don't think so. US copyright > rules where largely forced on the rest of the world which is helpful in > this context. Some European copyright rules were forced on the US in the form of the Bern Convention. Of course, the copyright industry pressured the US to yield. (I once organized a protest in Bern against the Bern convention.) > But US isn't the only country in the world. I always felt > like the FSF was supposed to be a global thing. We try to address the whole world, but we have to focus on the US, partly because that is where we operate, and partly because the lawyers we can access are US lawyers. Our funds are not enough for us to hire lawyers from all around the world. Donating money would help us to more. > When reading social media posts or news articles in general from the FSF > I feel like "Great idea. But how do we get there, could you do something > to address the roadblocks?" (i.e. GPL-3.0 FUD). We have to use the methods that we can find. Have you got a method to suggest? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
