From 04ce59eb5f6aee490f3159df738880551563df84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 05:10:15 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Wrote a number of slides quickly. --- presentations/1hr-GPL/1hr-GPL.markdown | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/presentations/1hr-GPL/1hr-GPL.markdown b/presentations/1hr-GPL/1hr-GPL.markdown index 024646a..d7ea2bb 100644 --- a/presentations/1hr-GPL/1hr-GPL.markdown +++ b/presentations/1hr-GPL/1hr-GPL.markdown @@ -77,7 +77,57 @@ # Why Listen To Us? + FSF: Understanding the purpose and intent of the GPL. - + + Conservancy & FSF: + both enforce the GPL. + if your client violates, you will hear from one of us. + ++ Such access to drafters, interpreters, enforcers is likely highly unique. + ++ Someday, someone in this room may (or already has) sit across the table + from you in negotiations. + ++ Our transparency does make your job easier. + +# The Mindset of GPL + ++ GPL protects software freedom. + ++ Ultimate goal: make sure every user has the four freedoms. + ++ Freedom to run the software. + ++ Freedom to study and modify the software. + ++ Freedom to share the software. + ++ Freedom to distribute modified versions. + ++ Every clause in GPL was designed to uphold one of these freedoms. + + Or, it's a compromise of drafting in adoption vs. freedom debate. + +# Using Copyright + ++ GPL is primarily a copyright license. + ++ Software is copyrighted. + ++ License grants key freedoms. + ++ Requirement prohibit activities that take away freedoms. + ++ General concept: copyleft. + ++ Specific implementation: GPL + +
+ + + +> an original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression … from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device + +

+ — 17 USC \S~102 +

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