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+ … 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.
+ We cannot possible cover the entire GPL in one hour.
+ We cannot possibly cover the entire GPL in one hour.
+ 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?
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+ 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.