2018-10-05 18:17:09 +00:00
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In response to requests during the FOSDEM Legal and Policy
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DevRoom, which is coordinated by a team of four that includes
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Conservancy's own Bradley M. Kuhn and Karen M. Sandler, Conservancy
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will organize a separate conference on the day following FOSDEM 2020,
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in Brussels, Belgium, called: The Annual International Copyleft
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Conference, or CopyleftConf for short.
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Participants from throughout the copyleft world — developers,
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strategists, enforcement organizations, scholars and critics — will be
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welcomed for an in-depth, high bandwidth, and expert-level discussion
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about the day-to-day details of using copyleft licensing, obstacles
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facing copyleft and the future of copyleft as a strategy to advance and
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defend software freedom for users and developers around the world.
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2018-10-26 15:25:40 +00:00
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The event will provide a friendly and safe place for discussion of copyleft
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as a key strategy for defending software freedom. Our program committee
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(Jonathan Corbet, Molly de Blanc, Bradley Kuhn, Deb Nicholson, Nithya Ruff,
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Josh Simmons, Eilís Flanagan, and Harald Welte) is dedicated to putting on a
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lively and informative event where everyone feels welcome.
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2018-10-05 18:17:09 +00:00
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Conservancy encourages everyone to save the date of Monday 3 February
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2020 in Brussels, Belgium for this first CopyleftConf. We've chosen the
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date and location to ease travel for those already attending FOSDEM the
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weekend preceding CopyleftConf.
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