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Stand Up for the GNU GPL! Karen M. Sandler LibrePlanet 2015 March 22, 2015 About me... Executive Director, Conservancy Board of Directors, GNOME Foundation Pro bono counsel, FSF, GNOME, QCO... Co-organizer, Outreachy Cyborg

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Stand Up for the GNU GPL!

Karen M. Sandler LibrePlanet 2015 March 22, 2015

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About me...

  • Executive Director, Conservancy
  • Board of Directors, GNOME Foundation
  • Pro bono counsel, FSF, GNOME, QCO...
  • Co-organizer, Outreachy
  • Cyborg
  • I ♥ LibrePlanet

@o0karen0o @conservancy

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About me...

  • Executive Director, Conservancy
  • Board of Directors, GNOME Foundation
  • Pro bono counsel, FSF, GNOME, QCO...
  • Co-organizer, Outreachy
  • Cyborg
  • I ♥ LibrePlanet

@o0karen0o @conservancy

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Newcomer?

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Standing up for the GNU GPL

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We get passionate requests for enforcement.

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Supercomputers Android phones TVs Cars International Space Station Google Facebook T witter Amazon

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Copyleft is good for everyone in the long run.

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How much is saved on software and how many months are products faster to market?

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Free software is everywhere and yet our freedoms are being constantly eroded.

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Quinn Dombrowski CC-BY-SA 2.0

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Once upon a time... (aka October 2011)

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  • $36 billion market cap
  • net revenue of over

$1 billion

  • Over 14,000

employees

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In 2014, VMware fjnally said they would not comply with the GPL.

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  • 279,653 lines of code

in the kernel

  • 20th of 1,340 in 3.19
  • 4th among reviewers
  • f third party code

This is Christoph Hellwig

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VMware asked for an NDA just to look at the settlement ofger!

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We were left with no choice but to sue.

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This is the fjrst case on derivative works.

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#VMwareDTRT

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“The point of the GPL is that nobody can claim those rights and then kick away the ladder to prevent others from also receiving them. We hope VMware will step up and do the right thing,"

  • - John Sullivan, FSF's executive director.
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“They should read our open source 101 materials!”

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Enforcing the GPL is very political

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We are a small organization

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...with a lot of other important work to do.

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We need your help

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We don't want to litigate, we just want compliance.

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This is a long road.

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You have a lot of power in this fjght.

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Stand up for the GNU GPL!

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Thank you

  • Software Freedom Conservancy is a 501(c)(3)

charity in the USA – make a donation! sfconservancy.org/donate/

  • These slides, this talk, and audio/video

recordings thereof (except for photos by others) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)