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Volunteering for the Licensing and Compliance Lab

Presented by: "Yoni Rabkin, Panos Alevropoulos, Paulius Gaulubickas"

Yoni Rabkin is a parent, programmer and paralegal who studied computer science in Israel, worked in the medical devices industry, and now writes custom software for a living. He believes that everyone should contribute something positive to society, commensurate with their personal strengths. Yoni will be speaking as a volunteer of the Licensing and Compliance Lab.

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The FSF's Licensing and Compliance Lab helps hundreds of people each year by answering their licensing questions with the help of a team of licensing volunteers. This talk will be an overview of what the Licensing and Compliance Lab does and what licensing volunteers do within it. We will cover the kinds of questions volunteers answer and volunteers will share what volunteering for the Compliance Lab is like.

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1 year, 3 months ago

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This talk was presented at LibrePlanet.

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LibrePlanet is the Free Software Foundation's annual conference. The FSF campaigns for free/libre software, meaning it respects users' freedom and community. We believe that users are entitled to this; all software should be free.

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We do not advocate "open source".

That term was coined to reject our views. It refers to similar practices, but usually presented solely as advantageous, without talking of right and wrong.

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Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 by announcing development of the free operating system, GNU. By 1992, GNU was nearly operational; one major essential component was lacking, the kernel.

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In 1992, Torvalds freed the kernel Linux, which filled the last gap in GNU. Since then, the combined GNU/Linux system has run in millions of computers. Nowadays you can buy a new computer with a totally free GNU/Linux system preinstalled.

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The views of the speaker may not represent the Free Software Foundation. The Foundation supports the free software cause and freedom to share, and basic freedoms in the digital domain, but has no position on other political issues.