BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Pentabarf//Schedule 0.3//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALDESC;VALUE=TEXT:Legal and Policy Issues devroom X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Legal and Policy Issues devroom X-WR-TIMEZONE;VALUE=TEXT:Europe/Brussels BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8799@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190202T103000 DTEND:20190202T103500 SUMMARY:Welcome to the Legal and Policy Issues devroom DESCRIPTION:
Welcome to and overview of the eighth year of the Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Legal and Policy Issues URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/welcome_legal_policy/ LOCATION:UA2.220 (Guillissen) ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Tom Marble":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8296@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190202T103500 DTEND:20190202T110000 SUMMARY:What did I just agree to? DESCRIPTION:Understanding FOSS licenses are indisputably an important part of the process for contracting for IT services ranging from software agreements, professional services to create or support software, and to cloud solutions.
It’s not uncommon to find carve outs in those agreements saying that “Some Third-Party Content may be provided to you under a separate license, such as the Apache License, Version 2.0, or other open source license.” What does that mean? Are there any surprising terms to be found in those “other open source licenses”.
This presentation will briefly review the terms of some of the less commonly discussed licenses approved by OSI as “open source.” What are some of the interesting properties of these less common licenses? And do we really want to keep agreeing to use them in our contracts?
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Legal and Policy Issues URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/what_did_i_agree_to/ LOCATION:UA2.220 (Guillissen) ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Marc Jones":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8251@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190202T110000 DTEND:20190202T112500 SUMMARY:Introducing the CERN Open Hardware Licence version 2 DESCRIPTION:The CERN OHL is a copyleft open hardware licence which was launched in March 2011. It has undergone point releases 1.1 and 1.2 and since then, but feedback from user communities, particularly those working with microprocessor cores and FPGAs has made us reconsider some of the fundamental assumptions made when the licence was first drafted. We have shamelessly taken ideas from other licences as well as introducing some new approaches, driven by the needs of users. This session introduces our new draft of version 2.0, which aims to make v2.0 more flexible than any previous version, while increasing clarity of drafting.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Legal and Policy Issues URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/cern_ohl_v2/ LOCATION:UA2.220 (Guillissen) ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Andrew Katz":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8148@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190202T113000 DTEND:20190202T115500 SUMMARY:Now what? Following through on your community guidelines DESCRIPTION:Is there a single right way to enforce a code of conduct, community guidelines, or whatever you call the systems you have to help maintain a good community? This is a peek into how the Debian Anti-Harassment (AH) team functions, a few (anonymized) examples of issues handled, and the philosophy behind helping the Debian community to be a welcoming place for all contributors.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Legal and Policy Issues URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/community_guidelines/ LOCATION:UA2.220 (Guillissen) ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Molly de Blanc":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8363@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190202T120000 DTEND:20190202T122500 SUMMARY:Open source in the quest for GDPR compliance DESCRIPTION:Uniformisation at the European level of data protection legislation brought on the table a lot of diversity in implementation from the private sector. Before the GDPR, member states had a specific national approach on how to interpret the previous Data protection directive 95/46/EC. Also, lots of actors came in the spotlight: the National Supervisory Authority, different public and private entities coming from all sectors of economy. The OSS community found itself driven in this ride and even with the best intentions nobody was able to find a complete, personalized guide to implement this new ruling that in theory is so welcomed. This talk is about pointing out how the Open source ecosystem is tangential with the GDPR data protection principles. Also, it will show how are the data protection rights and responsibilities shared between the community participants and the community's infrastructure providers.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Legal and Policy Issues URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/open_source_gdpr/ LOCATION:UA2.220 (Guillissen) ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Cristina DeLisle":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8136@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190202T123000 DTEND:20190202T125500 SUMMARY:LibreOffice: the origins of a community fork DESCRIPTION:LibreOffice was announced in September 2010 as a fork of OOo, by a group of active members of the OOo community who were worried by Oracle acquiring Sun. They decided to create an organization capable of growing the LibreOffice project based on five founding principles: copyleft license, no contributor agreement, meritocracy, independence from vendor(s), and community governance. The talk will cover the history and governance peculiarities of The Document Foundation.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Legal and Policy Issues URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/libreoffice_origins/ LOCATION:UA2.220 (Guillissen) ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Italo Vignoli":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8053@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190202T130000 DTEND:20190202T132500 SUMMARY:Redis Labs & the tragedy of the Commons Clause DESCRIPTION:In August 2018, Redis Labs relicensed a number of AGPL-licensed Redis modules with the "Commons Clause" amendment on the grounds that it prevents abuse and therefore ensures the sustainability of its development.
As this renders the software no-longer free and open source, GNU/Linux distributions such as Debian and Fedora are unable to ship Redis Labs' versions of the affected modules to their users.
This talk from a long-time (2009) Redis user & developer will outline the history, background & response to this flavour of license, as well explain how this it at odds with communities in which they participate in and are ultimately are a short-sighted & retrograde step for the companies and individuals that are advocating for them.
Furthermore, this talk will ask some thought-provoking questions about how the the conversation around "sustainability" in open source is being co-opted by foregrounding of financial elements to the detriment of the principles & people that have so clearly and demonstratively served us so well in the past four decades.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Legal and Policy Issues URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/tragedy_of_the_commons_clause/ LOCATION:UA2.220 (Guillissen) ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Chris Lamb":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8810@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190202T133000 DTEND:20190202T142000 SUMMARY:How should lawyers behave? Legal "Ethics" and Free Software DESCRIPTION:Legal issues are at the heart of FOSS, and lawyers play an important role in the creation and adoption of free software. Around the world, legal practice is constrained and governed by different rules outlining who lawyers can represent, how they can interact with their clients, the nature of advice they can give, how they deal with conflicts of interest and what information they must keep confidential. This panel will talk about how legal ethics plays out specifically for free software.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Legal and Policy Issues URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/legal_ethics/ LOCATION:UA2.220 (Guillissen) ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Karen Sandler":invalid:nomail ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Pamela Chestek":invalid:nomail ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Miriam Ballhausen":invalid:nomail ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Amanda Brock":invalid:nomail ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Justin Colannino":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8685@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190202T143000 DTEND:20190202T145500 SUMMARY:FOSS Governance: The good, the bad and the ugly DESCRIPTION:There are lots of ideas out there about how to run a free and open source software project... but not all strategies were created equal. Sometimes governance "just happens" but more often than not, projects end up with some things that work and some that don't. Transparency, clear expectations and compassion go a long way towards helping you find people who support your vision but can still bring new ideas to the table when it comes time to talk implementation. Your project's governance should reflect your values and empower individuals to succeed within its structure.
Maintaining and scaling your project is easier when you've laid a good foundation. The community is mature enough that we can learn from what's already been done and set up new projects for success. This talk will cover some of the big red flags you'll want to avoid as well as some of the structural details that will help avoid issues later on.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Legal and Policy Issues URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/foss_governance/ LOCATION:UA2.220 (Guillissen) ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Deb Nicholson":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8811@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190202T150000 DTEND:20190202T155000 SUMMARY:Making Sense of so many License Compliance Tools DESCRIPTION:License Compliance has become big business. Many proprietary tools exist, but fortunately inrecent years FLOSS tools to aid understanding the licenses of codebases have been created.This panel includes developers of many of these freely available tools. We'll discuss what thesetools do, if they can actually address compliance problems in the wild yet, and the generalchallenges of developing freely available tools in a heavily proprietarized industry.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Legal and Policy Issues URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/license_tools_panel/ LOCATION:UA2.220 (Guillissen) ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Bradley M. Kuhn":invalid:nomail ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Michael Jaeger":invalid:nomail ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Philippe Ombredanne":invalid:nomail ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Valerio Cosentino":invalid:nomail ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Max Sills":invalid:nomail ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Thomas Steenbergen":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8393@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190202T160000 DTEND:20190202T162500 SUMMARY:Who wants you to think nobody uses the AGPL and why DESCRIPTION:The GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) is an important tool forprotecting user freedom on the network. Detractors have criticized itfor being both too weak and too strong/demanding. In 2018, it was inthe news more than ever. Are the interests of corporations that areafraid of their free code being turned into network services run bycompetitors starting to align with users losing their freedom to suchservices?
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Legal and Policy Issues URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/nobody_uses_the_agpl/ LOCATION:UA2.220 (Guillissen) ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="John Sullivan":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8812@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190202T163000 DTEND:20190202T172000 SUMMARY:Advocating For FOSS Inside Companies Redux DESCRIPTION:Companies regularly use and contribute to FOSS. Most larger companies now employee internal staff who make policy decisions, recommend Tools, oversee license compliance, teach others about FOSS, and interpret community politics for thecompany. Different offices and departments usually differ in their approaches to managing, using, contributing to, and releasing FOSS. This second annual Open Source Program Office (OSPO) panel explores the different approaches companies have to FOSS.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Legal and Policy Issues URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/foss_inside_companies/ LOCATION:UA2.220 (Guillissen) ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Tom Marble":invalid:nomail ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Charles Eckel":invalid:nomail ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Nithya Ruff":invalid:nomail ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Duane O'Brien":invalid:nomail ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Jeff McAffer":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8326@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190202T173000 DTEND:20190202T175500 SUMMARY:The surprising interaction of open source and patent exhaustion DESCRIPTION:When people think of the interaction between patents and open source, the most frequent questions have to do with the existence and scope of patent licenses, either express or implied. However, patent exhaustion may end up being far more impactful than licenses. This discussion will present the results of some recent analysis of the caselaw and discuss some of the unexpected implications of recent patent exhaustion cases.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Legal and Policy Issues URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/patent_exhaustion/ LOCATION:UA2.220 (Guillissen) ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Van Lindberg":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT METHOD:PUBLISH UID:8813@FOSDEM19@fosdem.org TZID:Europe-Brussels DTSTART:20190202T180000 DTEND:20190202T185000 SUMMARY:Organizer's Panel -- Now and Forever DESCRIPTION:The organizers of the Legal & Policy Issues DevRoom will reflect on recent developments in software freedom policy and law, and will discuss some of the topics and issues raised in this year's and past year's DevRooms.
CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Legal and Policy Issues URL:https:/fosdem.org/2019/schedule/2019/schedule/event/organizers_panel/ LOCATION:UA2.220 (Guillissen) ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Tom Marble":invalid:nomail ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Bradley M. Kuhn":invalid:nomail ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Karen Sandler":invalid:nomail ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;CN="Richard Fontana":invalid:nomail END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR