Brussels / 30 & 31 January 2016

schedule

Legal and Policy Issues devroom


Room 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Saturday H.2213 Welcome to the Legal and Policy Issues Devroom Free as in freedom. The importance of FOSS in the surveillance era Dependency management and licencing information Community impacts of legal decisions
Legal policy as barrier to entry
When is Distribution not Distribution?
Triggering the copyleft condition in FOSS licences - what use cases are 'distribution'?
Why Open Core Licensing Sucks!!
Open-core or partially proprietary licensing model is worse than fully proprietary licensing model
Legal and policy issues around the use of open source software in public administrations and around the participation of public servants in open source communities
Public administrations and FOSS - not always an happy relationship
Software Patents After Alice: A Long and Sad Tail Copyleft For the Next Decade
A Comprehensive Plan for the GPL
Who controls your project? Governance in the real world TL;DR on legal strategy for commercial ventures
An abridged review of legal strategy and licensing issues for commercial ventures and enterprises
Open Source is being ruined and it’s all our fault
How we both help and hurt ourselves in open source and figure out how to ensure the best possible outcome.
Sunday UD2.218A A discussion with Richard Stallman Software Patents v3.0: the Unitary Patent Court
Software Patents in Europe madness continues
A Decade of Dual Licensing: Lessons Learned and Questions Remains AMENDMENT: A Beautiful Build: Releasing Linux Source Correctly Open source foundations: threat or menace? A community take on the license compliance industry Why a Patent License is Necessarily Implied But a Trademark License Is Not Status of safety-critical FOSS Comparing codes of conduct to copyleft licenses Who's afraid of the DCO
why you should help adopt the DCO for your project
Pick a peck of license pickers
An in-depth look at efforts to make choosing a license easy
Event Speakers Room Start End

Saturday

  Welcome to the Legal and Policy Issues Devroom Tom Marble, Bradley M. Kuhn, Richard Fontana H.2213 11:00 11:05
  Free as in freedom. The importance of FOSS in the surveillance era Giovanni Battista Gallus H.2213 11:05 11:30
  Dependency management and licencing information Camille Moulin H.2213 11:30 11:55
  Community impacts of legal decisions
Legal policy as barrier to entry
Dave Neary H.2213 12:00 12:25
  When is Distribution not Distribution?
Triggering the copyleft condition in FOSS licences - what use cases are 'distribution'?
Andrew Katz, Björn Lundell H.2213 12:30 12:55
  Why Open Core Licensing Sucks!!
Open-core or partially proprietary licensing model is worse than fully proprietary licensing model
Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy H.2213 13:00 13:50
  Legal and policy issues around the use of open source software in public administrations and around the participation of public servants in open source communities
Public administrations and FOSS - not always an happy relationship
Karel De Vriendt H.2213 14:00 14:50
  Software Patents After Alice: A Long and Sad Tail Deb Nicholson H.2213 15:00 15:50
  Copyleft For the Next Decade
A Comprehensive Plan for the GPL
Bradley M. Kuhn H.2213 16:00 16:50
  Who controls your project? Governance in the real world Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona H.2213 17:00 17:50
  TL;DR on legal strategy for commercial ventures
An abridged review of legal strategy and licensing issues for commercial ventures and enterprises
James Shubin H.2213 18:00 18:25
  Open Source is being ruined and it’s all our fault
How we both help and hurt ourselves in open source and figure out how to ensure the best possible outcome.
Brian 'redbeard' Harrington H.2213 18:30 18:55

Sunday

  A discussion with Richard Stallman Tom Marble, Richard Stallman UD2.218A 09:00 09:50
  Software Patents v3.0: the Unitary Patent Court
Software Patents in Europe madness continues
Benjamin Henrion (zoobab) UD2.218A 10:00 10:25
  A Decade of Dual Licensing: Lessons Learned and Questions Remains Perry Ismangil UD2.218A 10:30 10:55
  AMENDMENT: A Beautiful Build: Releasing Linux Source Correctly Bradley M. Kuhn UD2.218A 11:00 11:50
  Open source foundations: threat or menace? Richard Fontana UD2.218A 12:00 12:50
  A community take on the license compliance industry Stefano Zacchiroli UD2.218A 13:00 13:25
  Why a Patent License is Necessarily Implied But a Trademark License Is Not Pamela Chestek UD2.218A 13:30 13:55
  Status of safety-critical FOSS Jeremiah C. Foster UD2.218A 14:00 14:25
  Comparing codes of conduct to copyleft licenses Sumana Harihareswara UD2.218A 14:30 14:55
  Who's afraid of the DCO
why you should help adopt the DCO for your project
James Bottomley UD2.218A 15:00 15:50
  Pick a peck of license pickers
An in-depth look at efforts to make choosing a license easy
John Sullivan UD2.218A 16:00 16:50