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Bradley M. Kuhn and John Sullivan and Miriam Ballhausen and Davide Ricci and EilÃs Nà Fhlannagáin
Type devroom
Do Present Compliance Practices Assure Software Freedom for Device Users?
Starts on day 1 (2021-02-06) at 17:00 (Brussels time, UTC+1) in room Legal (duration 01:00)
Matrix room #legal:fosdem.org
Compliance with Open Source and Free Software licenses remains a perennial topic of discussion among policy makers in our community. However, little attention is paid to the motivations why these licenses have specific requirements. Specifically, at least for copyleft licenses, the licenses seek to bestow specific rights and freedoms to the users who receive the software integrated into the devices they use. This panel, containing a group of industry experts, consultants, and license enforcement experts, discusses the challenges and importance of assuring downstream can actually utilize the compliance artifacts they receive with products as intended by the license.