+ … and therefore enforcers of those copyrights.

+ Software Freedom Conservancy

    + Adviser on legal issues of copyright, etc. to Free Software projects.

    + Holder of some copyrights on its member projects.

    + Enforcer of GPL on behalf of many copyright holders in:

    + BusyBox, Samba, Mercurial, and the kernel named Linux.

# How this Hour Will Go?

+ Materials presented will mix the simple & complex.

+ Discuss: motivations, origins, then a few of GPL's sections.

+ I understand the mix of backgrounds in the audience.

# A Restaurant's Lawyer?

+ Considering why you want to learn this.

+ What if your client was a restaurant?

+ What would you want to need to know?

+ Who is in charge of all this?

+ What was the purpose and intent of these regulations?

# Why Listen To Us?

+ FSF: Understanding the purpose and intent of the GPL.

+ Conservancy & FSF:

    + both enforce the GPL.

    + if your client violates, you will hear from us.