%% Copyright (c) 2013 John Sullivan %% This work, excluding the FSF logo, is licensed under the Creative %% Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy %% of this license, visit %% http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage{beamerthemesplit} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{url} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usetheme{CambridgeUS} \logo{\includegraphics[scale=0.2]{fsf_logo.png}} \title{State of the GNUnion: FSF licensing policy challenges in 2013} \subtitle{FOSDEM 2013\\Brussels, Belgium} \author[John Sullivan]{John Sullivan \\ Executive Director \\ \texttt{[email protected]} \\ \texttt{http://status.fsf.org/johns}} \institute[FSF]{Free Software Foundation} \date{February 3, 2013} \begin{document} \begin{frame} \titlepage \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Nice to meet you} I've been the Executive Director just since March 2011, but I've been with the Free Software Foundation since 2003. \hfill Thank you for having me! \hfill The FSF was founded as a nonprofit organization in 1985 to fight for the freedoms of computer users, and to sponsor the GNU Project, which has a goal of making a fully free operating system. \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Goals for this talk} \begin{itemize} \item Explain \textit{what} we do at the FSF in this area \pause \item Share \textit{why} we do these things in these ways \pause \item Evaluate \textit{how} things are going \pause \item Provide ideas for what \textit{you} can do \pause \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Who is the FSF licensing and compliance lab?} \begin{itemize} \item Joshua Gay, Licensing and Compliance Lab Manager \item Donald Robertson, Copyright and Licensing Associate \item Me, Executive Director \item Richard Stallman, President \item Bradley Kuhn, FSF director \item Software Freedom Law Center, especially Eben Moglen and Aaron Williamson \item A team of volunteers \item \url{[email protected]}, \url{[email protected]} \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{What does the FSF licensing and compliance lab do?} \begin{itemize} \item Produce educational materials \pause \item Investigate reported license violations, involving code whose copyright has been entrusted to the FSF. \pause \item Certify products that use and require only free software. \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Why we do licensing} \begin{itemize} \item Law and licensing are only tools to achieve a free software world. \item We use licensing because we have to. \item The GPL -- and copyleft in general -- is one of the most important and best tools we have, but it is still only a tool. \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{What are we working on?} \begin{itemize} \item GPL adoption \item Compliance and enforcement \item App Store licensing \item Secure Boot vs. Restricted Boot \item JavaScript licensing \item Hardware Certification \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{GPL adoption} Last year here, I said that 93 percent of packages in Debian's Squeeze release were under the GPL family of licenses. I did this to prove a point, about the problems with the way people have been ``measuring'' license adoption. We're doing interviews about licensing choices at \url{http://fsf.org/blogs/licensing}. \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Compliance and enforcement} \begin{itemize} \item Recent GNU discussion about FSF support for GNU. \item Why we do copyright assignment \item Working on improvements: Scanned assignments in more countries, digital signing process, permitting partial assignment. \item Hard to tell people about this work. \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{App Store licensing} \begin{itemize} \item We enforced against Apple. \item Terms have changed since then, we are reassessing. \item Apple store remains a very problematic platform for free software. \item Free software use does not necessarily mean more caring about user freedom \item Better ways? \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Secure Boot vs. Restricted Boot} \begin{center} \url{http://www.fsf.org/sb} \includegraphics[scale=0.12]{restricted-boots} \end{center} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{JavaScript licensing} \begin{itemize} \item \url{http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html} \item \url{http://www.gnu.org/software/librejs} \end{itemize} \begin{center} \includegraphics[scale=1]{librejs} \end{center} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Why certification?} How do people know when something will respect their freedoms? This is a hard enough problem for us -- we have to spend a lot of time looking at software licenses and code, to see if it is free. \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Certification} \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{linksys} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Respects Your Freedom} \includegraphics[scale=0.25]{RYF} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Respects Your Freedom} This label is for products -- computers and computer accessories -- that ship with only free software and are fully compatible with free software systems. \begin{itemize} \item Actual certification mark. You cannot display it unless we've evaluated the product. Companies commit via contract to fix any problems that are discovered. \item We announced the first version of the guidelines in 2010. \item Ultimate goal is to certify complete systems, especially laptops and mobile devices. \item You can read more about it and the guidelines at \url{http://www.fsf.org/ryf}. Also see \url{http://h-node.org}. \end{itemize} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{The first certified product} \includegraphics[scale=0.2]{lulzbot-logo} \hspace{0.5in} \includegraphics[scale=0.2]{lulzbot} \vspace{0.25in} Yes, it's called the Lulzbot. But we were very serious about certifying it. The timing was very effective. The logo appeared in \textit{MAKE} magazine's 3D printer issue. It was soon after Makerbot announced a shift in the proprietary direction, and on the same day that Intellectual Ventures received a patent on DRM for 3D printers. \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Aleph Objects, Inc.} \begin{quote} Aleph Objects, Inc. is honored to have the first hardware product with the FSF's Respects Your Freedom certification mark, and we're proud to sell a 3D printer that delivers freedom to each and every user. Aleph Objects, Inc. was founded with the idea that people should be free to use, learn from, and improve the machines they use, and to share their improvements and innovations with collaborative communities. The spirit and philosophy of the free software movement is embodied in our LulzBot 3D printer. All of our printers ship with hardware designs, software, and documentation all under free licenses. You get it all -- source code, design documents, and specifications -- everything needed to control, tinker, fix, and improve upon every aspect of the printer. \end{quote} -- Jeff Moe, Founder of Aleph Objects, Inc. \end{frame} \begin{frame}{LibrePlanet 2013} Last week we opened registration for our annual LibrePlanet conference. It will be on March 23rd-24th in Cambridge, MA, USA. \url{http://libreplanet.org} \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Goals for this talk} \begin{itemize} \item Explain \textit{what} we do at the FSF in this area \pause \item Share \textit{why} we do these things in these ways \pause \item Evaluate \textit{how} things are going \pause \item Provide ideas for what \textit{you} can do \pause \end{itemize} And most importantly, hear from you about what we can do better. \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Support Freedom} Our work is funded primarily by grassroots contributions from thousands of individual members. \begin{itemize} \item Join the FSF at \url{http://www.fsf.org/join} (use referrer \#8096 if you like me). Or donate what you can at \url{https://donate.fsf.org}. \pause \item Stay informed by subscribing to our \textit{Free Software Supporter} newsletter at \url{http://www.fsf.org/fss}. It's now also available in Spanish. \pause \item Use the good labels. Buy a GNU/Linux Inside sticker. Support certified products. \end{itemize} \end{frame} \end{document}