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So, thank you everyone to coming to
this talk.

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Are you ready to start? Yeah, fabulous.

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We've called it "That's a Free Software
Issue!"

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Cause it is!

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A little bit about us.

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My name is Karen Sandler, I'm the executive
director of an organization named

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Software Freedom Conservancy.

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Raise your hand if you've heard of
Conservancy

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so, like 3/4 of the room.

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We're a nonprofit charity, we're the home
of lots of free software projects

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like git, ???, Inkscape, ???,
on and on.

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We're also the home of the Debian Copyright
Aggregation project, and

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we're the home of Outreachy, which is a
diversity initiative that

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Debian participates in and

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the very shortest note about me is that
I have a heart condition and

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I'm fine, but my heart is 3 times the size
of a normal person's heart

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and I'm at a very high risk of suddenly
dying,

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so I have a pacemaker defibrillator,
which is awesome, except

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I can't see the source code in my own
body, which is causing me to be

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really really passionate about software
freedom.

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Karen might be a cyborg, but I'm a cat
owner,

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this is a picture of my cat, his name is
Bash.

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My name is Molly de Blanc, I'm a free
software activist,

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I'm the campaign manager for the Free
Software Foundation.

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How many people here know about the FSF?

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Wow!

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How many of you are members?

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Still good!

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Can we ask them how many are
Conservancy supporters?

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How many of you are Conservancy
supporters?

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Nice

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How many of you are both?

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Thanks!

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If anyone, since I'm a volunteer with the
Free Software Foundation,

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I'm also a lawyer and I only do pro bono
legal work now.

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But since I'm a volunteer sometimes with
the Free Software Foundation,

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I can say that if anyone signs up to become
a Free Software Foundation associate member

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during this talk, come up afterwards and
highfive me.

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And I can say, since I volunteer for the
Conservancy,

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that if you would like to become a
Conservancy supporter by the end

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of this presentation, I will highfive you.

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So, in addition to those things, I'm also
on the board of the Open Source Initiative

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I like to think this makes me doubly
qualified to talk about licensing

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even though I'm less qualified than Karen
to talk about licensing.

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You are also affiliated with all of
the orgs.

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Yeah.

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Officially, so…

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Which brings us to
"What is user freedom?"

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Raise you hand if this is, maybe, your
first conference

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in Free and Open Source Software.

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Let's give all these people a round of
applause there,

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like 5 people here who are new.

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[Applause]

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Brief introduction, do you want to
start that?

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Sure

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User freedom is predicated, it's based
on the idea

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we first need to understand and appreciate
that we have digital rights.

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We're extending our rights that exist in
physical spaces to digital spaces.

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And once we understand that, we can then
think about and talk about

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"Well, there is this software and these
technologies that we're using

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and we also have rights specifically
relevant to those"

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So user freedom is the freedom that we
have relating to technology and software.

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User freedom is a really important part
of our digital right, it's…

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the slide is not… oh there it is

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Oops, now I have gone too far.

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Software freedom is an important piece of
user freedom.

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User freedom, I think, it's very difficult
for user freedom to exist

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without software freedom.

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So, software freedom, should I just…
Yeah.

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Software freedom is a software that
you can…

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I love this picture, ???
for the FSF

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You can buy this on a t-shirt
from them.

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But it's software with 4 freedoms.

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The ability to run a software, to make
modifications to the software,

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to contribute back those changes and to
share the software generally.

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There's different licenses that help
accomplish this.

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Free and Open Source Software is
predicated on a legal construct

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and there's this really special idea called
Copyleft where

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we use copyright, which creates effectively
a monopoly, but in order to

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keep software free and to share it.