[Community] Re: Stop using Richard Stallman's name

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Hi Mr Maffulli 

Everything was clarified and the "problem" was solved. 

We got this.
http://www.creativecommons.it/pipermail/community/2005-April/000512.html 

Is that message a fake?
Is Mr Grossi a liar? 

On my opinion there's was no reason to bother Mr Stallman one more time!! 

Best
Danilo Moi 

 

Stefano Maffulli Scrive: 

> Dear Christiane and dear Italian Public Lead, 
> 
> I cannot continue reading and stay silent with all these messages in
> Italian and in English on public mailing lists mentioning a supposed
> support of Richard Stallman to 'scarichiamoli' and without the same mr.
> Stallman in copy.  This is very unfair and cannot be tolerated further:
> the issue has degenerated into a flame war. 
> 
> I want to make you aware of the fact that mr. Stallman has not given
> "full support" to the 'scarichiamoli' initiative as reported in the
> following, clear, sentence: 
> 
>     rms wrote:
>         I agree with the goals of Scarichiamoli which were stated to me
>         as follows.
>         
>         >     Public access to intellectual works that are in public
>         domain
>         >     (our culture, our story) and free use of intellectual
>         works
>         >     financed with public money.
>         
>         I don't read Italian, and I don't know the precise details of
>         the
>         Scarichiamoli proposal, so I can't have an opinion about them.
>         However, I am happy to lend my name in support of the goals as
>         stated above.
>         
> Here you can read exactly what is written, not any more hidden meanings. 
> 
> Scarichiamoli cannot be sinthesized only in that sentence since it
> contains also a proposal of reform of a basic copyright law in Italian
> legal system.  The impact of this reform still have not been evaluated
> in respect to Free Software.  In any case, the fact that Moi and Grossi
> (and the whole 4 people staff a creativecommons.it) avoid CCing mr
> Stallman speaks for their methods of confused communication. 
> 
> I ask everybody, to stop dragging other people into this personal
> crusade considering that this fight can seriously damage the image of CC
> in Italy (the archives of the lists @creativecommons.it are public and
> indexed). 
> 
> Thanks for your patience
> stefano maffulli