Bradley Kuhn Delivered Copyleft Keynote at FOSDEM

Mon Feb 13 17:26:23 UTC 2017

URL: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2017/feb/13/bkuhn-fosdem-keynote/

Bradley Kuhn Delivered Copyleft Keynote at FOSDEM

Emphasized how compliance empowers developers

At FOSDEM last week, Conservancy's Distinguished Technologist Bradley Kuhn 
delivered a keynote "Understanding The Complexity of Copyleft Defense."  The 
speech reviews the history of GPL enforcement efforts, pointing out 
development projects such as OpenWRT and SamyGo that began thanks to GPL 
compliance work.  Kuhn focused in particular on how copyleft compliance can 
further empower users and developers as more kinds of devices run GPL'd 
software, and he concluded his remarks urging developers to take control of 
their own work by demanding to hold their own copyrights, using mechanisms 
such as Conservancy's ContractPatch initiative.

FOSDEM is attended by thousands of people and is one of the FOSS community's 
premier conferences.  FOSDEM is a community-oriented, not-for-profit 
conference organized by volunteers.  You can watch Kuhn's full keynote on 
the FOSDEM site at
<https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/copyleft_defense/>
or on our YouTube channel at
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPn8zyUebmw>.

Relevant links:
  https://wiki.openwrt.org/about/history
  https://www.samygo.tv/
  https://sfconservancy.org/contractpatch/

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