+ Formerly had John's job, Executive Director of FSF, years ago.

+ Currently: on Board of Directors of FSF.

+ President of Software Freedom Conservancy.

# How These Orgs Relate to GPL?

+ FSF

    + Invented copyleft.

    + Authors & stewards of the GPL.

    + Holder of copyrights on many key GNU programs …

    + … 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?

# Restaurant Lawyer: What'd You Study?

+ If you were a restaurant's lawyer:

+ Probably three areas of law you'd focus on:

     + building codes.

     + health and safety regulations.

     + tax regulations.

+ Who would want to hear from?

# Restaurant Lawyer: What'd You Study?

+ Figure out the motivations behind the building code:

      + What parts are arcane and less important to inspectors?

      + How do inspections work?

      + What are the penalties?

+ Figure out the same for health & safety:

      + Who inspects, and when?

      + What's the health code say, and what checklist do inspectors use?

+ Is there any way the two interrelate?

+ 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.