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?"