DEBATE: Should FOSS licenses be enforced at all?
What means are acceptable if so?
- Track: Legal and Policy Issues devroom
- Room: UA2.220 (Guillissen)
- Day: Saturday
- Start: 11:00
- End: 11:50
In a perfect world, lawyers (and the entire legal system) should not be necessary. And in a perfect FOSS world, everyone respects each and every provision of every license. The reality is, however, very different, and enforcement may be a necessary evil. This need does not mean we have to open the gates to be flooded by "copyleft trolls", but to establish a sound enforcement policy, in order to unleash the lawyers only for the most blatant and repeated violations
Affirmative position: FOSS licenses should not be enforced.
- First Affirmative Constructive (1AC) = 7 minutes a. Cross-examination of First Affirmative by Second Negative = 3 minutes
- First Negative Constructive (1NC) = 7 minutes a. Cross-examination of First Negative by First Affirmative = 3 minutes
- Second Affirmative Constructive (2AC) = 7 minutes a. Cross-examination of Second Affirmative by First Negative = 3 minutes
- Second Negative Constructive (2NC) = 7 minutes a. Cross-examination of Second Negative by Second Affirmative = 3 minutes
- First Negative Rebuttal (1NR) = 3 minutes
- First Affirmative Rebuttal (1AR) = 3 minutes
- Second Negative Rebuttal (2NR) = 3 minutes
- Second Affirmative Rebuttal (2AR) = 3 minutes
Speakers
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Pamela Chestek |
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Giovanni Battista Gallus |
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Marc Jones |
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McCoy Smith |