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'''EuroLinux''' is a campaigning organisation that promotes [[open source software]] / [[free software]] in [[Europe]], and that are opposed to the [[European Union]]'s proposals to introduce laws on [[software patent]]s. It is also known as '''EuroLinux Alliance'''.
It is ''not'' an [[umbrella organisation]] for [[Linux User Group]]s in Europe.

It describes itself as: "The EuroLinux Alliance for a [[Free Information Infrastructure]] is an open coalition of commercial companies and non-profit associations united to promote and protect a vigorous European Software Culture based on [[copyright]], [[open standard]]s, open competition and open source software such as Linux. Corporate members or sponsors of EuroLinux develop or sell software under free, semi-free and non-free licenses for [[operating system]]s such as [[Linux]], [[Mac OS]] or [[Microsoft Windows]]."

Eurolinux organised the public EU campaign against software patents that was signed by more than 300,000 people. Members include [[Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure|FFII]], [[April (French association)|April]], [[:fr:Association francophone des utilisateurs de logiciels libres|AFUL]], [[Association Electronique Libre|AEL]], and European [[Linux user group]] (LUG) umbrella associations.

== See also ==
* [[European Information, Communications and Consumer Electronics Technology Industry Associations]] (EICTA)

== External links ==
* [http://www.eurolinux.org http://www.eurolinux.org] forwards here [https://ffii.org/ https://ffii.org/]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20051227032443/petition.eurolinux.org/index_html?NO_COOKIE=true Old petition for a software patent-free Europe] (archive.org copy)
* Note: some people might be looking for downloads from here [https://euro-linux.com/ https://euro-linux.com/]

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