What was New in 2001 on the GNU Web Site

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December 2001

03 December 2001
A press release about Richard's receipt of the Takeda Award in Tokyo, Japan has been issued.

November 2001

21 November 2001
Added the essay Freedom or Power? on the philosophy page.

18 November 2001
For a little while, added a link to the Petition Against Software Patents from GNUs Flashes on home.html.

6 November 2001
Published a report and some photographs on the participation of the FSF and FSF Europe in Porto, Technological City (Portugal).

October 2001

24 October 2001
For a little while, added a link to the Anti-DMCA Petition from GNUs Flashes on home.html.

22 October 2001
Put out a press release regarding Version 21 of the GNU Emacs Editing Environment.

13 October 2001
Richard Stallman wrote a letter to the editor of Dr. Dobb's Journal in June to clarify the distinction between the free software and open source movements; it is now available for reading in our philosophy section.

12 October 2001
Put out a press release regarding the seventh major release of GNU Bayonne.

The Free Software Foundation and Finite State Machine Labs Inc. (FSMLabs) have announced the release of the Open RTLinux patent license Version 2 fully compliant with the Free Software Foundation's General Public License (GPL). The Open Patent License grants the right to use U.S. Patent No. 5,995,745 in GPL free software without payment of a royalty. This license protects GPL use of the RTLinux process. For more information, please see the updated press release.

September 2001

29 September 2001
Added the GNU Messenger page.

24 September 2001
Put out a new press release regarding speeches given by Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen at GWU's Cyberspace Policy Institute's Free Software Conference.

18 September 2001
Put out new statement regarding the RTLinux patent license, and a put out a press release on the matter.

Added Eben Moglen's essay, Enforcing the GNU GPL.

17 September 2001
Added information on today's discussions with FSMLabs to the statement on RTLinux, and a to the press release on the matter.

14 September 2001
Added statement the GPL violation by RTLinux, and a press release on the matter.

13 September 2001
Added a few new licenses to the license list page.

August 2001

4 August 2001
Added a few new licenses to the license list page.

3 August 2001
Added more free books to our "other free books" page.

July 2001

23 July 2001
Added a new page for Free Software license issues.

20 July 2001
Richard Stallman has inaugurated the Free Software Foundation-India. Read the press release (plain text).

10 July 2001
Added transcript of Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks.

09 July 2001
The Free Software Foundation has announced its support of free software projects designed to replace components of Microsoft's .NET: Mono and DotGNU. Read the press release (plain text).

03 July 2001
Added pictures taken of Bob Chassell accepting the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award for the GNU Project.

02 July 2001
Added an interview with Richard M. Stallman and Louis Suarez-Potts to the philosophy section.

June 2001

18 June 2001
Added press release on The GNU Compiler Collection Version 3.0 Release to the press page.

17 June 2001
Added essay by Professor Eben Moglen about Why the FSF gets copyright assignments from contributors.

15 June 2001
We have a new t-shirt - "Welcome to the GNU Age!"; see the t-shirt page or go directly to our ordering page for information.

11 June 2001
Added an essay by RMS called Harm from the Hague to the philosophy section.

9 June 2001
Put up a summary of the RMS speech at NYU.

Added Peter Gerwinski's 1200x1200 version of a GNU head to our Art Gallery.

1 June 2001
Put link to pictures of FSF Europe Toast on the past events page.

May 2001

31 May 2001
Put up the transcript of the RMS speech at NYU.

Added the past events page.

30 May 2001
Put up the audio recording of the RMS speech at NYU.

29 May 2001
Added link to joint statement responding to Mundie's comments.

Added Lisa Goldstein and Paul Visscher to the people page.

25 May 2001
Added press release on Richard Stallman's speech at NYU, countering Mundie's attack on Free Software to the press page.

Added a link to the GPL FAQ on /copyleft/copyleft.html and for a little while, from GNUs Flashes on home.html.

23 May 2001
Added a FAQ about the GNU General Public License.

12 May 2001
Added info about some additional non-free licenses, as well as a revision of the Artistic License which does qualify as free.

4 May 2001
Added the press release on The GNU General Public License Protects Software Freedoms to the press page.

3 May 2001
Added the The GPL and the American Dream essay to the philosophy page. A French version is also available.

2 May 2001
Added the GNU Bayonne press release to the press page.

April 2001

29 April 2001
Added Richard M. Stallman's speech, Copyright and Globalization in the Age of Computer Networks, given at MIT, to our collection of audio recordings.

23 April 2001
Updated the help page to link to the savannah.gnu.org help wanted page.

22 April 2001
Updated the Java page to be a little more clear on our Java policy.

20 April 2001
Released issue #26 of the Brave GNU World, the monthly GNU column.

13 April 2001
Added some new policies to the webmastering guidelines.

Added some new tasks to the webmastering task list.

9 April 2001
Added link to the Public Library of Science letter writing campaign.

7 April 2001
Added Don Marti's essay, Patent Reform Now!, which calls for free software supporters to nominate Richard M. Stallman to US Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Public Advisory Committee.

Added ASCII gnu head graphic.

6 April 2001
Added XCF format for the levitating, meditating, flute-playing gnu.

March 2001

28 March 2001
Made our position on non-free software clearer on the license list page.

27 March 2001
Added GNUs Flash: French State Secretary of Industry Christian Pierret has gone on record in opposition to software patents.

Updated Patent Reform is not Enough page with information about European opposition to patents.

26 March 2001
On the license list page, added extra link for Open Public License. Also added alternate name for "The Berkeley Database License"---namely, the Sleepycat Software Product License.

22 March 2001
For a little while, added a link to Eurorights.org, a grassroots campaign dedicated to the opposition of the European Union copyright directive from GNUs Flashes on home.html.

20 March 2001
Richard M. Stallman Addresses Brazilian Congress on Free Software and the Ethics of Copyright and Patents.

Added the new listening gnu image.

Added the FSF Logo image.

19 March 2001
Added a brief explanation of how to place a program under the GNU General Public License or the Lesser General Public License.

18 March 2001
Released issue #25 of the Brave GNU World, the monthly GNU column.

12 March 2001
Add a few links to the Boycott Amazon page, and reorganized it.

8 March 2001
Added the new levitating, meditating, flute-playing gnu.

Added proper licensing information for the dynamic duo image.

February 2001

23 February 2001
Clarified the text in our response to the new version of the APSL.

21 February 2001
Our response to the new version of the APSL is now available.

Minor changes to the Free Software Definition were made.

13 February 2001
Released issue #24 of Georg's Brave GNU World, the monthly GNU forum in six languages.

10 February 2001
Added Richard M. Stallman's speech, The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System, given at ArsDigita University, to our collection of audio recordings.

Added a page about Radius and GnuTLS.

2 February 2001
Brian Paul has received the third annual Free Software Foundation Award For the Advancement of Free Software.

January 2001

29 January 2001
Added a link to EFF's MPAA DVDI Cases Archive to our philosophy page.

28 January 2001
On our links page, added links to

22 January 2001
Announcement of the second free course about administration of GNU/Linux networks in Colombian schools.

16 January 2001
The web pages of the GNUPedia project are online. The project has been launched.

15 January 2001
Released issue #23 of the Brave GNU World. The Brave GNU World is now also available in Korean.

7 January 2001
Added "God wrote in Lisp code" to our Humor page.

3 January 2001
Guile's mailing list page has been updated to reflect host changes and include new lists.

1 January 2001
New section about Education in our web server.

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