So, thank you everyone to coming to this talk.
Are you ready to start? Yeah, fabulous.
We've called it "That's a Free Software Issue!"
Cause it is!
A little bit about us.
My name is Karen Sandler, I'm the executive director of an organization named
Software Freedom Conservancy.
Raise your hand if you've heard of Conservancy
so, like 3/4 of the room.
We're a nonprofit charity, we're the home of lots of free software projects
like git, ???, Inkscape, ???, on and on.
We're also the home of the Debian Copyright Aggregation project, and
we're the home of Outreachy, which is a diversity initiative that
Debian participates in and
the very shortest note about me is that I have a heart condition and
I'm fine, but my heart is 3 times the size of a normal person's heart
and I'm at a very high risk of suddenly dying,
so I have a pacemaker defibrillator, which is awesome, except
I can't see the source code in my own body, which is causing me to be
really really passionate about software freedom.
Karen might be a cyborg, but I'm a cat owner,
this is a picture of my cat, his name is Bash.
My name is Molly de Blanc, I'm a free software activist,
I'm the campaign manager for the Free Software Foundation.
How many people here know about the FSF?
Wow!
How many of you are members?
Still good!
Can we ask them how many are Conservancy supporters?
How many of you are Conservancy supporters?
Nice
How many of you are both?
Thanks!
If anyone, since I'm a volunteer with the Free Software Foundation,
I'm also a lawyer and I only do pro bono legal work now.
But since I'm a volunteer sometimes with the Free Software Foundation,
I can say that if anyone signs up to become a Free Software Foundation associate member
during this talk, come up afterwards and highfive me.
And I can say, since I volunteer for the Conservancy,
that if you would like to become a Conservancy supporter by the end
of this presentation, I will highfive you.
So, in addition to those things, I'm also on the board of the Open Source Initiative
I like to think this makes me doubly qualified to talk about licensing
even though I'm less qualified than Karen to talk about licensing.
You are also affiliated with all of the orgs.
Yeah.
Officially, so…
Which brings us to "What is user freedom?"