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48_187	Assimp, and Blender. Some suggested the selection of a license with a broader license
48_188	compatibility, for instance the MIT, BSD, or LGPL 2.1. A request went to the FSF to relicense GNU
48_189	LibreDWG as GPLv2, which was rejected in 2012.
48_190	The libDWG has stalled since 2011 for various reasons, including license issues.
48_191	Last commit to libDWG was in 2015. LibreDWG is actively developed.
48_192	Accusations against Richard Stallman
48_193	Stallman resigned from the board in 2019 after making controversial comments about one of the
48_194	victims of Jeffrey Epstein, but Stallman rejoined the board 18 months later. Several prominent
48_195	organizations and individuals who develop free software objected to the decision, citing past
48_196	writings on Stallman's blog which they considered antithetical to promoting a diverse community. As
48_197	a result of Stallman's reinstatement, prominent members of the Free Software Foundation quit in
48_198	protest and the major benefactor Red Hat announced that it would stop funding and supporting the
48_199	Free Software Foundation.
48_200	Recognition Key players and industries that have made honorific mention and awards include:
48_201	2001: GNU Project received the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award for "the ubiquity, breadth, and
48_202	quality of its freely available redistributable and modifiable software, which has enabled a
48_203	generation of research and commercial development".
48_204	2005: Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction in the category of "Digital Communities"
48_205	See also
48_206	Defective by Design Digital rights Electronic Frontier Foundation Free software movement
48_207	Free Software Foundation Europe Free Software Foundation Latin America
48_208	Free Software Foundation of India Hardware restrictions League for Programming Freedom
48_209	LibrePlanet
48_210	Notes References External links LibrePlanet
48_211	1985 establishments in Massachusetts 501(c)(3) organizations Charities based in Massachusetts
48_212	Digital rights organizations Educational charities based in the United States
48_213	Free and open-source software organizations Free software movement Intellectual property activism
48_214	Non-profit organizations based in Boston Non-profit technology Organizations based in Boston
48_215	Organizations established in 1985 Science and technology think tanks
49_0	Michael J. Hicks (born in 1962) is the George & Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Economics
49_1	and director of the Center for Business and Economic Research and Professor of Economics at Ball
49_2	State University.
49_3	Early life and military career
49_4	Hicks graduated from Langley High School in McLean, Virginia and the Virginia Military Institute.
49_5	He served as an active duty infantry officer with the 26th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Regiment
49_6	and Division Tactical and Assault Command Posts of the 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized). He left
49_7	active duty as a captain and served as a reserve officer, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. Major
49_8	General Mark Hicks, USAF is his brother.
49_9	Academic career
49_10	In 1998, he received a Ph.D. from University of Tennessee. Hicks held academic positions at the
49_11	University of Tennessee, Marshall University and the Air Force Institute of Technology.
49_12	Appalachian coal and environment
49_13	Hicks authored several studies of the coal industry and the impact of federal environmental policy
49_14	on coal production and the West Virginia economy. Hicks and two other co-authors developed a clean
49_15	water financing plan for West Virginia which ultimately became the Special Reclamation Fund. This
49_16	fund was financed by a combination of a 7 cent tax per ton of coal, with a secondary 7 cent
49_17	phase-out tax. This was designed to provide water treatment funds for abandoned coal mines. This
49_18	remains the largest state level water treatment trust fund in the United States.
49_19	Governor Bob Wise (D) appointed Hicks to the Fund commission, where, after approval by the West
49_20	Virginia State Senate he served from 2003–2006.
49_21	In 2002 Hicks testified in a court case in Boone County, West Virginia that would eventually
49_22	culminate in one of the most celebrated recent cases before the U.S. Supreme Court Caperton v.
49_23	Massey. This case became inspiration for the John Grisham Novel "The Appeal."
49_24	Burton and Hicks also provided testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public
49_25	Works, Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands and Climate Change, regarding the fiscal and economic
49_26	effects of mining restrictions. This committee meeting also featured an appearance by one of the
49_27	Backstreet Boys which prompted several committee members to walk out of the hearing. Burton and
49_28	Hicks also served as consultants to the National Academies of Science review of the economic
49_29	consequences of the coal slurry spill in eastern Kentucky.
49_30	West Virginia Workers' Compensation controversy
49_31	A 2001 study co-authored by Hicks found little negative economic consequences of West Virginia's
49_32	Workers' Compensation rates on the overall economy. This report sparked much criticism from the
49_33	West Virginia Chamber of Commerce and unleashed a series of op-Ed pieces and a letter writing
49_34	campaign to state newspapers. The public debate culminated in an editorial in the Charleston
49_35	Gazette criticizing the Chamber's attack on the Marshall University research team. However, the
49_36	chair of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce wrote to Marshall University President Dan Angel,
49_37	demanding that Dr. Hicks' tenure be revoked as a consequence of this study. Hicks was not tenured
49_38	at the time. He received tenure in 2004.
49_39	Hurricane and flood damages
49_40	Mark Burton and Michael Hicks developed models of flood damages from data collected on the Great
49_41	Flood of 1993. These were used to simulate flood damages on the Mississippi and Tennessee Rivers.
49_42	In September 2005, Burton and Hicks used this model to estimate damages from Hurricane Katrina.
49_43	Subsequently, both participated in the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force which reviewed
49_44	the response to the Hurricane. In 2008 Ball State University released studies onfloods in Indiana
49_45	and Iowa. In 2010 Burton and Hicks were asked by the Army Corps of Engineers to provide an estimate
49_46	of flood damages for the Pakistan Flood of 2010.
49_47	Local government consolidation
49_48	Hicks is co-author with Dagney Faulk of a book on local government consolidation. This book
49_49	developed from work on local government consolidation study teams authored by former governor Joe
49_50	Kernan and Supreme court Justice Randy Shepard. The book was published in January 2011. Indiana's
49_51	governor Mitch Daniels wrote the foreword to the book.
49_52	In 2011 Faulk and Hicks completed two studies on government consolidation (local governments and
49_53	school districts in New Jersey).
49_54	Wal-Mart and local economies
49_55	Hicks was an early researcher of Wal-Mart's impact on communities, and since 1999 has published
49_56	several papers and a book on the economic impact of Walmart. Along with Kristy Wilburn, Hicks
49_57	published the first econometric study to address the endogeneity of firm location decision related
49_58	to Wal-Mart. Subsequent to this, Hicks appeared in a November 2005 Global Insight conference on
49_59	Wal-Mart's impact which received significant national attention. These papers were later published,
49_60	along with a book. Hicks' work has been frequently cited in the academic literature, media and
49_61	advocacy groups.
49_62	Economic columnist
49_63	Hicks writes a weekly economics column, which is syndicated in more than two dozen Indiana
49_64	newspapers,.
49_65	Awards
49_66	Marshall University's Distinguished Artist and Scholar Award (with Mark L. Burton), as well as the
49_67	Graduate Student Teaching Award at Tennessee's College of Business, and awards from the Air Force
49_68	Institute of Technology's student association and Ball State's Miller College of Business.
49_69	In 2008 the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University received the
49_70	Association for University Business and Economic Research Award for its Manufacturing Scorecard. In

48_187

Assimp, and Blender. Some suggested the selection of a license with a broader license

48_188

compatibility, for instance the MIT, BSD, or LGPL 2.1. A request went to the FSF to relicense GNU

48_189

LibreDWG as GPLv2, which was rejected in 2012.

48_190

The libDWG has stalled since 2011 for various reasons, including license issues.

48_191

Last commit to libDWG was in 2015. LibreDWG is actively developed.

48_192

Accusations against Richard Stallman

48_193

Stallman resigned from the board in 2019 after making controversial comments about one of the

48_194

victims of Jeffrey Epstein, but Stallman rejoined the board 18 months later. Several prominent

48_195

organizations and individuals who develop free software objected to the decision, citing past

48_196

writings on Stallman's blog which they considered antithetical to promoting a diverse community. As

48_197

a result of Stallman's reinstatement, prominent members of the Free Software Foundation quit in

48_198

protest and the major benefactor Red Hat announced that it would stop funding and supporting the

48_199

Free Software Foundation.

48_200

Recognition Key players and industries that have made honorific mention and awards include:

48_201

2001: GNU Project received the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award for "the ubiquity, breadth, and

48_202

quality of its freely available redistributable and modifiable software, which has enabled a

48_203

generation of research and commercial development".

48_204

2005: Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction in the category of "Digital Communities"

48_205

See also

48_206

Defective by Design Digital rights Electronic Frontier Foundation Free software movement

48_207

Free Software Foundation Europe Free Software Foundation Latin America

48_208

Free Software Foundation of India Hardware restrictions League for Programming Freedom

48_209

LibrePlanet

48_210

Notes References External links LibrePlanet

48_211

1985 establishments in Massachusetts 501(c)(3) organizations Charities based in Massachusetts

48_212

Digital rights organizations Educational charities based in the United States

48_213

Free and open-source software organizations Free software movement Intellectual property activism

48_214

Non-profit organizations based in Boston Non-profit technology Organizations based in Boston

48_215

Organizations established in 1985 Science and technology think tanks

49_0

Michael J. Hicks (born in 1962) is the George & Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Economics

49_1

and director of the Center for Business and Economic Research and Professor of Economics at Ball

49_2

State University.

49_3

Early life and military career

49_4

Hicks graduated from Langley High School in McLean, Virginia and the Virginia Military Institute.

49_5

He served as an active duty infantry officer with the 26th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Regiment

49_6

and Division Tactical and Assault Command Posts of the 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized). He left

49_7

active duty as a captain and served as a reserve officer, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. Major

49_8

General Mark Hicks, USAF is his brother.

49_9

Academic career

49_10

In 1998, he received a Ph.D. from University of Tennessee. Hicks held academic positions at the

49_11

University of Tennessee, Marshall University and the Air Force Institute of Technology.

49_12

Appalachian coal and environment

49_13

Hicks authored several studies of the coal industry and the impact of federal environmental policy

49_14

on coal production and the West Virginia economy. Hicks and two other co-authors developed a clean

49_15

water financing plan for West Virginia which ultimately became the Special Reclamation Fund. This

49_16

fund was financed by a combination of a 7 cent tax per ton of coal, with a secondary 7 cent

49_17

phase-out tax. This was designed to provide water treatment funds for abandoned coal mines. This

49_18

remains the largest state level water treatment trust fund in the United States.

49_19

Governor Bob Wise (D) appointed Hicks to the Fund commission, where, after approval by the West

49_20

Virginia State Senate he served from 2003–2006.

49_21

In 2002 Hicks testified in a court case in Boone County, West Virginia that would eventually

49_22

culminate in one of the most celebrated recent cases before the U.S. Supreme Court Caperton v.

49_23

Massey. This case became inspiration for the John Grisham Novel "The Appeal."

49_24

Burton and Hicks also provided testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public

49_25

Works, Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands and Climate Change, regarding the fiscal and economic

49_26

effects of mining restrictions. This committee meeting also featured an appearance by one of the

49_27

Backstreet Boys which prompted several committee members to walk out of the hearing. Burton and

49_28

Hicks also served as consultants to the National Academies of Science review of the economic

49_29

consequences of the coal slurry spill in eastern Kentucky.

49_30

West Virginia Workers' Compensation controversy

49_31

A 2001 study co-authored by Hicks found little negative economic consequences of West Virginia's

49_32

Workers' Compensation rates on the overall economy. This report sparked much criticism from the

49_33

West Virginia Chamber of Commerce and unleashed a series of op-Ed pieces and a letter writing

49_34

campaign to state newspapers. The public debate culminated in an editorial in the Charleston

49_35

Gazette criticizing the Chamber's attack on the Marshall University research team. However, the

49_36

chair of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce wrote to Marshall University President Dan Angel,

49_37

demanding that Dr. Hicks' tenure be revoked as a consequence of this study. Hicks was not tenured

49_38

at the time. He received tenure in 2004.

49_39

Hurricane and flood damages

49_40

Mark Burton and Michael Hicks developed models of flood damages from data collected on the Great

49_41

Flood of 1993. These were used to simulate flood damages on the Mississippi and Tennessee Rivers.

49_42

In September 2005, Burton and Hicks used this model to estimate damages from Hurricane Katrina.

49_43

Subsequently, both participated in the Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force which reviewed

49_44

the response to the Hurricane. In 2008 Ball State University released studies onfloods in Indiana

49_45

and Iowa. In 2010 Burton and Hicks were asked by the Army Corps of Engineers to provide an estimate

49_46

of flood damages for the Pakistan Flood of 2010.

49_47

Local government consolidation

49_48

Hicks is co-author with Dagney Faulk of a book on local government consolidation. This book

49_49

developed from work on local government consolidation study teams authored by former governor Joe

49_50

Kernan and Supreme court Justice Randy Shepard. The book was published in January 2011. Indiana's

49_51

governor Mitch Daniels wrote the foreword to the book.

49_52

In 2011 Faulk and Hicks completed two studies on government consolidation (local governments and

49_53

school districts in New Jersey).

49_54

Wal-Mart and local economies

49_55

Hicks was an early researcher of Wal-Mart's impact on communities, and since 1999 has published

49_56

several papers and a book on the economic impact of Walmart. Along with Kristy Wilburn, Hicks

49_57

published the first econometric study to address the endogeneity of firm location decision related

49_58

to Wal-Mart. Subsequent to this, Hicks appeared in a November 2005 Global Insight conference on

49_59

Wal-Mart's impact which received significant national attention. These papers were later published,

49_60

along with a book. Hicks' work has been frequently cited in the academic literature, media and

49_61

advocacy groups.

49_62

Economic columnist

49_63

Hicks writes a weekly economics column, which is syndicated in more than two dozen Indiana

49_64

newspapers,.

49_65

Awards

49_66

Marshall University's Distinguished Artist and Scholar Award (with Mark L. Burton), as well as the

49_67

Graduate Student Teaching Award at Tennessee's College of Business, and awards from the Air Force

49_68

Institute of Technology's student association and Ball State's Miller College of Business.

49_69

In 2008 the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University received the

49_70

Association for University Business and Economic Research Award for its Manufacturing Scorecard. In