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<title>FSFE at FOSDEM 2021</title>
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<h1>FSFE at FOSDEM 2021</h1>
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<p>FOSDEM, the biggest annual Free Software event in Europe, took place again this year on the first weekend in February.
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As we do every year, we organised a community event before FOSDEM and this year we also co-organised the Legal and Policy Devroom for the first time.</p>
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<p>While FOSDEM normally occurs every year in the Free University of Brussels, this year it happened online for the first time - and completely
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with Free Software. FOSDEM had more than 25 simultaneous talks at times, with accompanying interactive text-based chat rooms, live Q&A with the
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speakers on video, and “hallway track” breakout rooms after each talk where speakers and attendees could join video chat together and discuss the talk.
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According to the main FOSDEM organisers, they had a <a href="https://nitter.nixnet.services/_ShinIce/status/1358461185537044488">peak of 33,600 attendees</a>.
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This year, FSFE is also honoured to have co-organised the Legal and Policy Devroom at FOSDEM for the first time. And ad we do every year, we hosted a great
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community event before FOSDEM, this time with a keynote from Cory Doctorow. </p>
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<figure>
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<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/0be979798dd328b6010cdb379168e649.png" alt="Cory Doctorow at FSFE's Community Event"/>
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<figcaption>Cory Doctorow at FSFE's Community Event</figcaption>
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</figure>
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<h2>FSFE PRE-FOSDEM Community Event</h2>
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<p>We started this year's FOSDEM with a social meeting on Friday evening. For our FSFE PRE-FOSDEM community event, Cory Doctorow gave a keynote on
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internet monopolies and software freedom - a lecture you should not miss.</p>
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<video preload="none" controls="controls" width="100%">
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<source src="https://download.fsfe.org/videos/mirror/Cory_Doctorow_on_internet_monopolies_and_software_freedom_-_FSFE_PRE-FOSDEM_Community_Event_Keynote-WDa9IM2X3s4.mp4"
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type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"' />
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</video>
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<h2>FOSDEM21: Legal and Policy Devroom agenda</h2>
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<p>FOSDEM's Legal and Policy Issues Devroom addresses important Free Software related policy or legal topics. Our community has substantial
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expertise in this area, yet there are few venues to discuss these matters in a forum open to all. Hackers, developers, contributors, lawyers,
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policy experts, and community leaders all possess expertise in these matters.</p>
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<p>Together with our co-organisers Karen Sandler and Bradley Kuhn from Software Freedom Conservancy, and Richard Fontana from Red Hat,
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we discussed at the final panel the most important issues of the devroom and also tackled some topics that were missing from the agenda.
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This might be a good first video for you to get an overview of our devroom.</p>
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<video preload="none" controls="controls" width="100%">
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<source src="https://download.fsfe.org/videos/mirror/PANEL_-_Organizers_of_the_Legal_Policy_DevRoom_-_FOSDEM_2021-WgnDGpJhlAI.mp4"
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type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"' />
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</video>
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<h2>Free Software strategy of the Commission</h2>
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<p>On 21 October 2020, the European Commission approved their new "Open Source Software Strategy 2020-2023". We had an
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interview with Evangelos Tsavalopoulos from the European Commission on this. In the interview we asked important questions about this strategy
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and also addressed pressing questions from members of our community.</p>
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<video preload="none" controls="controls" width="100%">
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<source src="https://download.fsfe.org/videos/mirror/European_Commission_Open_Source_Strategy_-_Evangelos_Tsavalopoulos_Alexander_Sander_-_FOSDEM_2021-UB9Wga-AaHk.mp4"
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type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"' />
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</video>
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<h2>Router Freedom</h2>
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<p>FSFE’s Deputy Legal Coordinator, Lucas Lasota, presented an overview on the current state of router freedom in Europe. New rules in the EU have created
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challenges to router freedom, given that IAPs (Internet Access Providers) will be able to limit router freedom based on "objective technological necessity". The talk went through
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the historical aspects and future developments in Europe, why Free Software is a fundamental enabling element, and how people can get involved.</p>
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<video preload="none" controls="controls" width="100%">
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<source src="https://download.fsfe.org/videos/mirror/Net_Neutrality_and_Free_Software_-_The_Case_of_Router_Freedom_in_Europe_-_Lucas_Lasota_-_FOSDEM_2021-SMHgxRCjBgA.mp4"
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type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"' />
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</video>
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<h2>Health public policy</h2>
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<p>In a panel moderated by Karen Sandler on Software and Hardware Freedom in health public policy, Fabio Balli, Adriana Groh and Luis Falcon, discussed
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the extent to which Free Software and Open Hardware can be used in the public health sector. The Corona crisis has clearly shown us that
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we also need to work together in the area of software and hardware. For example Hackathons were held in various countries to find software solutions
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to counter this crisis. The development of tracing apps or solutions for hospitals and health authorities has also shown that Free Software can help many
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people and that isolated solutions are counterproductive. The panel discussed what lessons we can learn from the crisis and how Free Software and Open
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Hardware must be used in the future. </p>
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<video preload="none" controls="controls" width="100%">
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<source src="https://download.fsfe.org/videos/mirror/Software_and_Hardware_Freedom_in_Health_Public_Policy_-_FOSDEM_2021-3GIb7LW5xrc.mp4"
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type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"' />
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</video>
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<h2>Funding for Free Software projects</h2>
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<p>In a talk by Sven Franck the question of funding for Free Software projects was addressed. He demanded that Free Software be given a tax break.
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He presented several initiatives from the Libre Endowment Fund ("Fonds de Dotation du Libre" in French) - from financing feature development of
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Free Software to releasing a 4G/5G base station as open hardware or supporting litigation against the French government's decision to host health data on Microsoft servers.</p>
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<video preload="none" controls="controls" width="100%">
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<source src="https://download.fsfe.org/videos/mirror/Give_open_source_a_tax_break_-_FOSDEM_2021-2QlnD_KcjKo.mp4"
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type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"' />
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</video>
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<h2>Licencing and Compliance</h2>
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<p>We also addressed questions on licensing and compliance. Bradley M. Kuhn moderated a panel with John Sullivan, Miriam Ballhausen,
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Davide Ricci, and Eilís Ní Fhlannagáin on the question whether present compliance practices assure software freedom for device users. Compliance
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with Free Software licenses remains a perennial topic of discussion among policy makers in our community. However, little attention is
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paid to the motivations why these licenses have specific requirements. Specifically, at least for copyleft licenses, the licenses seek to
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bestow specific rights and freedoms to the users who receive the software integrated into the devices they use. This panel discussed the
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challenges and importance of assuring that downstream users can actually utilize the compliance artifacts they receive with products as intended by the license.</p>
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<video preload="none" controls="controls" width="100%">
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<source src="https://download.fsfe.org/videos/mirror/PANEL_-_Open_Source_and_Free_Software_License_Compliance_And_Users_-_FOSDEM_2021-AruxoP93vJg.mp4"
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type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"' />
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</video>
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<p>A talk by Cornelius Schumacher from KDE addressed how a large community and a company worked together in terms of licensing: "Protecting
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against proprietary re-licensing with a community contract - How the KDE Free Qt Foundation ensures software freedom for twenty-five years
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and counting". This presentation explained the community contract, how it augments the dual-licensing model, and how it has evolved and
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served its purpose for 25 years and counting. It also discussed the lessons learned and how it can serve as a model for other organisations.</p>
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<video preload="none" controls="controls" width="100%">
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<source src="https://download.fsfe.org/videos/mirror/Protecting_against_proprietary_re-licensing_with_a_community_contract_-_FOSDEM_2021-3QgONF7aY8U.mp4"
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type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"' />
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</video>
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<p>And Giovanni Battista Gallus, Fabio Pietrosanti, Carlo Piana and Alberto Pianon, discussed the first AGPL compliance case settled in an Italian court.
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Globaleaks is an AGPLv3+ SaaS application for anonymous whistleblowing, developed by the Hermes Center. After receiving a prototype, the Italian Anticorruption Authority (ANAC) re-published a version under the EUPL, modifying the attribution and the copyright statement, removing reasonable notice from the GUI, and failing to fully
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comply with source code obligations. After several attempts for an out-of-court solution, the question was finally settled by the parties, restoring the correct
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license and the other issues. There are several lessons to be learned from this controversy. License compatibility and the other Free Software obligations
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(including conveying the corresponding source code) are not to be taken lightly, and require a good degree of knowledge and expertise, especially when
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they are related to an application which has been implemented by several public administrations. </p>
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<video preload="none" controls="controls" width="100%">
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<source src="https://download.fsfe.org/videos/mirror/The_first_AGPL_compliance_case_settled_in_an_Italian_Court_-_FOSDEM_2021-gm0NKwL5QZw.mp4"
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type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"' />
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</video>
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<h2>Digital Markets Act</h2>
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<p>Also actual legislative proposals have been addressed. Vittorio Bertola gave a talk "Free Software, Interoperability and the Digital
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Markets Act", proposing new European regulation to open up the dominant platforms. The European Commission recently proposed new regulations
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(DSA/DMA/DGA) to protect democracy and restore openness and competition. The talk introduced them and their economic and political background;
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it then focused on a specific point, the requirement for dominant platforms to interoperate with third parties, though only in limited cases,
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using messaging and social media as example. </p>
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<video preload="none" controls="controls" width="100%">
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<source src="https://download.fsfe.org/videos/mirror/Open_Source_Interoperability_and_the_Digital_Markets_Act_-_Vittorio_Bertola_-_FOSDEM_2021-ys6lBcWJ5-4.mp4"
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type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"' />
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</video>
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<h2>Free Software Culture</h2>
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<p>Deb Nicholson and Hong Phuc Dang asked if Free Software culture is too US-centric and argued why it should not be so. Free Software is made
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up of a truly global community of tinkerers, collaborators, and innovators. In this conversation, Deb Nicholson and Hong Phuc Dang look at the
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global state of Free Software policy and talk about why no particular country – especially the US – should be centered.</p>
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<video preload="none" controls="controls" width="100%">
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<source src="https://download.fsfe.org/videos/mirror/Open_Source_Culture_is_Very_US-Centric_But_It_Shouldn_t_Be_-_FOSDEM_2021-cMOvA5_c3GU.mp4"
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type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"' />
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</video>
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<h2>REUSE - make licensing easy for humans and machines alike</h2>
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<p>Beside the talks at the Legal and Policy Devroom, our Programme Manager Max Mehl gave a talk on "REUSE - Best practices for declaring copyright
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and licenses" at the OpenChain Devroom. With three simple steps, REUSE makes adding and reading licensing and copyright information easy for both
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humans and machines. This presentation will guide you through the REUSE best practices and shows how to make clear licensing simple.</p>
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<video preload="none" controls="controls" width="100%">
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<source src="https://download.fsfe.org/videos/mirror/REUSE_-_Best_practices_for_declaring_copyright_and_licenses_-_Max_Mehl_-_FOSDEM_2021-JXwHgPfR9UQ.mp4"
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</video>
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<p>We hope you enjoyed this year's FOSDEM as much as we did. We are already looking forward to the next FOSDEM. </p>
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<description>FSFE at FOSDEM 2021</description>
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