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33  hearings on software patents.  We welcome suggestions for other  hearings on software patents.  We welcome suggestions for other
34  activities, as well as help in carrying them out.  activities, as well as help in carrying them out.
35    
 Membership dues in the League are $42 per year for programmers,  
 managers and professionals; $10.50 for students; $21 for others.  
 Please give more if you can.  The League's funds will be used for  
 filing briefs; for printing handouts, buttons and signs; whatever will  
 persuade the courts, the legislators, and the people.  You may not get  
 anything personally for your dues--except for the freedom to write  
 programs.  The League is a non-profit corporation, but not considered  
 a tax-exempt charity.  However, for those self-employed in software,  
 the dues can be a business expense.  
36    
37  The League needs both activist members and members who only pay their  (Added 2003) The League for Programming Freedom is inactive nowadays,
38  dues.  We also greatly need additional corporate members; contact us  though its web site www.programming-freedom.org is still maintained.
39  for information.  It would be very useful to find a person who could take the initiative
40    to get the LPF operating again.  It will be a substantial job,
41    requiring persistence and working with a lawyer.  If you want to do
42    it, please write to rms@gnu.org.
43    
 If you have any questions, please write to the League, phone  
 +1 617 621 7084, or send Internet mail to lpf@uunet.uu.net.  
   
                        Chris Hofstader, President  
                        Dean Anderson, Secretary  
                        Aubrey Jaffer, Treasurer  
   
 Chris Hofstader can be reached at (617) 492-0023; FAX (617) 497-1632.  
  To join, please send a check and the following information to:  
   
     League for Programming Freedom  
     1 Kendall Square #143  
     P.O.Box 9171  
     Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139  
   
 (Outside the US, please send a check in US dollars on a bank  
 having a US correspondent bank, to save us check cashing fees.)  
   
 Your name:  
   
   
 The address for League mailings, a few each year; please indicate  
 whether it is your home address or your work address:  
   
   
   
 The company you work for, and your position:  
   
   
 Your phone numbers (home, work or both):  
   
   
 Your email address, so we can contact you for demonstrations or for  
 writing letters.  (If you don't want us to contact you for these  
 things, please say so, but please give us your email address anyway  
 so we can save paper and postage by sending you the newsletter by email.)  
   
   
 Is there anything about you which would enable your endorsement of the  
 LPF to impress the public?  For example, if you are or have been a  
 professor or an executive, or have written software that has a good  
 reputation, please tell us.  
   
   
   
 Would you like to help with LPF activities?  
   
   
   
   
 The corporate charter of the League for Programming Freedom states:  
   
     The purpose of the corporation is to engage in the following  
     activities:  
   
     1. To determine the existence of, and warn the public about  
     restrictions and monopolies on classes of computer programs where such  
     monopolies prevent or restrict the right to develop certain types of  
     computer programs.  
   
     2. To develop countermeasures and initiatives, in the public interest,  
     effective to block or otherwise prevent or restrain such monopolistic  
     activities including education, research, publications, public  
     assembly, legislative testimony, and intervention in court proceedings  
     involving public interest issues (as a friend of the court).  
   
     3. To engage in any business or other activity in service of and  
     related to the foregoing paragraphs that lawfully may be carried on  
     by a corporation organized under Chapter 180 of the Massachusetts  
     General Laws.  
   
 The officers and directors of the League will be elected annually by  
 the members.  

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