It appears that FFII, the main anti-software-patent body in Europe, is planning to organise an "online demonstration" against software patents some time around April 14/15. (There's a European Council meeting to discuss allowing sw patents in Europe around that time.)
The details aren't quite firmed up yet, but it'll probably be a couple of days or at most a week. (http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/Demo14and15aprilOnlineDemo) What's involved? It's a matter of replacing a website's front page temporarily with a "protest page", detailing why the site looks different, what the issues are, a link to a "more info" page, and a link to the "real" front page. Other, internal pages of the site, are not affected. I'm strongly against sw patents, so last time, I did this for most of my sites, but not SpamAssassin's. This time around, I thought I'd find out in advance if we were in agreement, since SpamAssassin joining the demo would be quite high-profile, IMO. So -- devs/PMC people -- anyone object to doing this? Anyone agree it'd be a good thing to do? Sander -- is it acceptable by Apache policy to do this? --j.
