Freies Vortragsprogramm (Sa, 06.05.2006)

The goals of the GPL, and the GPLv3 process

von Ciaran O'Riordan (Free Software Foundation Europe)

Samstag, 06.05.2006, Saal 6.1, 15:00-16:00 Uhr

This talk will cover:

* The goals of the GPL: The Four Freedoms, and Copyleft

* A brief history of the GPL: from the Emacs Public License to GPL version 2

* The current status of the GPL: enforcement, validity

* The process for drafting GPLv3 software license: a project that our community has not tried before

* What the community can do: giving input

* The decision making process: what happens to the comments

* What we can all do to make this process as effective as possible and to maximise adoption of the finished work

Über den Autor Ciaran O'Riordan:

Ciaran O'Riordan is a Brussels-based software rights lobbyist, originally from Ireland. A user of free software, such as GNU/Linux, since 1998, O'Riordan has a background is in writing software. He began focussing on the legislative aspects of software rights in 2003, becoming particularly active in the campaign against software patents in Europe. Since then he has taken up public speaking and expanded his work on EU directives on topics such as copyright, patents, and enforcement of laws which relate wholly or partly to software. He was a founder of Irish Free Software Organisation in January 2004. Continuing his lobbying work, he relocated to Brussels in August 2004. In April 2005, he was hired by Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) to continue his lobbying work full-time. Today, O'Riordan is still a full-time employee of FSFE and as well as his lobbying work, he has become active in raising awareness of the revision process for free software's cornerstone software licence: the GNU General Public License.