The First Annual International Copyleft Conference

[Software Freedom Conservancy]

URL: <https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/apr/30/copyleft-conf/>

Save the date: Monday 4 February 2019 in Brussels, Belgium

Software Freedom Conservancy — the home to many key copyleft projects 
like Inkscape, Samba and Wine, and known for its work enforcing the GPL 
for its own projects as well as Linux — announced today that Conservancy 
will coordinate the first conference focused entirely on copyleft 
licensing, strategy, enforcement, governance and best practices.

In response to requests during the FOSDEM Legal and Policy DevRoom, 
which is coordinated by a team of four that includes Conservancy's own 
Bradley M. Kuhn and Karen M. Sandler, Conservancy will organize a 
separate conference on the day following FOSDEM 2019, in Brussels, 
Belgium, called: The Annual International Copyleft Conference, or 
CopyleftConf for short.

Participants from throughout the copyleft world — developers, 
strategists, enforcement organizations, scholars and critics — will be 
welcomed for an in-depth, high bandwidth, and expert-level discussion 
about the day-to-day details of using copyleft licensing, obstacles 
facing copyleft and the future of copyleft as a strategy to advance and 
defend software freedom for users and developers around the world.

The event will provide a friendly and safe place for discussion of 
copyleft as a key strategy for defending software freedom.

Conservancy encourages everyone to save the date of Monday 4 February 
2019 in Brussels, Belgium for this first CopyleftConf. We've chosen the 
date and location to ease travel for those already attending FOSDEM the 
weekend preceding CopyleftConf.
Important Dates:

     Monday 16 July 2018: official CFP announcement and venue details 
announced.
     Sunday 19 August 2018: CFP submission deadline.
     Monday 10 September 2018: Conference schedule announced.

Watch Conservancy's RSS feeds for CopyleftConf announcements as those 
dates approach!


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