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CeCILL: La Licence Francaise Du Logiciel Libre

Posted by timothy on from the got-a-different-word-for-everything dept.

News for nerds writes "Researchers at three French government-funded research organizations revealed the new Open-Source license, known as CeCILL (English .pdf here), which they say is compatible with the FSF's GPL. CeCILL is intended to make free software more compatible with French law in two areas where it differs significantly from U.S. law: copyright and product liability. I, for one, welcome our nouvelle overlord of freedom."

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  1. The French are coming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    HAHA

  2. But.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Do they run linux? And Can they imagine a beowulf cluster of CeCILL machines running in Soviet Russia, you Insensitive CLOD! Oh SHIT! I spilled some hot grits down my pants. All votre base sont belong to nous!

  3. Strange by illuminata · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have this odd feeling that this new license isn't going to be do very well. I'm guessing that the French government will pull back any sort of offensive it takes in its enforcement.

    I doubt that it will be effective seeing how there's a pretty damn good chance that they're going to waive a white flag once people ignore the terms of it.

    Why I feel there's a good chance? Dunno, just a hunch I guess...

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  4. SECAM Licence by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    SECAM = System Essentially Contrary to the American Method.

    Sorry, I'm just to lasy to search for a reference for this joke... I'll go for easy karma instead :-)

  5. Re:Let us celebrate this ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What's really funny about this post is that it will be modded funny by French bashers and Overrated by sane people. While the author won't get karma for Funny mods, he will lose 1 point for each Overrated mod.

    Damn, now THAT'S FUNNY!

  6. Re:YEAH, KEEP GOING by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Of course: "Enculé", "Fils de pute", "je te chie dessus", and you can even mix those: "Enculé de fils de pute", or "je te chie dessus, fils de pute!".

    After that there are more subtiles rules, because, you have to insult people the way they must get mad.

    Saying to someone "t'es un connard" won't shock him as much as if you intend to direct your insults degrading someone who he does care about (mother for an adolescent, girlfriend for a man,...).

    Fick dich! ;)