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Speakers
John Sullivan
Schedule
Day Saturday
Room AW1.125
Capacity 76
Start time 16:00
End time 16:30
Duration 00:30
Info
Track Legal Issues Devroom

Is copyleft being framed?

This short talk will address the following questions, to inspire discussion and contemplation about how we frame descriptions of the state of licensing in free software.

  • Numbers are increasingly being cited to show that the use of copyleft licenses, specifically the GPL, is declining. What do these numbers actually show, who is propagating them, and why? What do or might other numbers show?
  • Is the "percentage of free software projects which use copyleft licenses" a useful way to judge the success of copyleft? Does an increase in the percentage of projects using non-copyleft permissive licenses indicate a failure of copyleft?
  • As a small related case study, what role have the licensing terms of popular mobile application stores played in this debate, and how have those terms changed the frame of the discussion?

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15:40-16:25 IronPython: Bringing the dynamic world to the CLR Mono K.3.601
15:45-16:30 OpenQA CrossDistribution H.1301
15:45-16:30 Succeeding in the Google Summer of Code as a large project CrossDistribution H.1302
16:00-16:15 LISPmob: enhanced network layer mobility solution Lightning Talks Ferrer
16:00-16:30 Introduction to the QtOnPi project Open Mobile Linux AW1.120
16:00-16:30 Introducing Mutability Detector Free Java K.4.401
16:00-16:30 Introducing the Mozilla Labs Apps Project Mozilla UD2.218A
16:00-16:30 Applications: PubSub in the Dutch Railways API Jabber and XMPP H.2213
16:00-16:45 CAcert: Trust - the root of evil?! Hardware Cryptography H.2214
16:00-16:50 Managing rights in PostgreSQL: from the basics to SE-PostgreSQL PostgreSQL K.4.201
16:00-16:50 Programming LEGO MINDSTORMS robots in Ada Ada AW1.121
16:00-16:50 Linux Containers and OpenVZ Hypervisors Janson
16:00-16:50 LibreOffice: on-line and in your pocket Future of UI K.1.105
16:00-16:55 Infinispan: where open source, Java and in-memory data grids converge JBoss.org K.3.201
16:00-16:55 Infrastructure as an open-source project Virtualization and Cloud Chavanne
16:00-17:00 Liberating ARM's Mali GPU. X.org+OpenICC K.3.401
16:00-17:00 Why mobile text input is hard Embedded Lameere
16:00-17:45 LPI Exam Session 2 Certification Guillissen
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16:15-17:00 CoreObject GNUstep AW1.126
16:15-17:00 Crossdesktop group picture CrossDesktop H.1308
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Next (up to 3) talks in the same room (AW1.125):

When Event Track
16:30-17:00 The (possible) decline of the GPL, and what to do about it Legal Issues
17:30-18:00 Panel on Application Stores Legal Issues
18:00-18:30 Panel on Software Patents Legal Issues

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16:30-17:00 An update on PIM storage and sync: SyncEvolution Open Mobile Linux AW1.120
16:30-17:00 Applications: Real-Time Text for Smooth and Rapid Communication Jabber and XMPP H.2213
16:30-17:00 How I added a feature to Firefox Mozilla UD2.218A
16:30-17:00 Caciocavallo: CacioTest, CacioWeb & Deployment Free Java K.4.401
16:30-17:30 QA tools for FOSS distributions CrossDistribution H.1301
16:40-16:55 The Self-Describing Wishbone Bus Lightning Talks Ferrer
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17:00-17:30 GNOME 3: Every Detail Matters CrossDesktop H.1308
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