THE PACT OF FREE SOFTWARE

A common to protect and to develop.

I am aware that

The free software actors' work takes part in the preservation of essential freedom in the digital era, the sharing of knowledge and the bridging of the « digital gap ». It is also an opportunity for the public, the technological independance and the competitiveness of France and Europe ;

Free software is a common to protect and develop. Its existence depends on the right for an author to release her software along with its source code, and to grant to everyone the right to use, copy, adapt and redistribute them, in original or modified form.

I therefore commit myself to

Encourage administrations, public places and local governments to develop and use in priority free software and open standards ;

Defend the free software authors and users' rights, for instance by asking the modification of any legal text(?) endangering/fragilizeing(?) those rights, and by opposing to any new law project that would go into this way.