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<title>FOSDEM21: Legal and Policy Issues Devroom agenda</title>
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<h1>FOSDEM21: Legal and Policy Issues Devroom agenda</h1>
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<p>As every year, the FSFE will be present at FOSDEM, the biggest annual Free Software event in Europe. In 2021, the FSFE is honored
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to co-organise the Legal and Policy Devroom at FOSDEM. We are excited and look forward to presenting you an interesting programme throughout the whole weekend.</p>
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<p>While FOSDEM normally takes place every year in the Free University of Brussels, this year it will for the first time happen online. Also for the
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first time, the FSFE will co-organise the <a href="https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/legal_and_policy_issues/">Legal and Policy Devroom on Saturday and Sunday at 14:00 CET.</a></p>
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<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/7b2decf9e5cdf0fb5155a60810cf1ee1.jpg" alt="FSFE FOSDEM booth"/>
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<figcaption>FSFE FOSDEM booth</figcaption>
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<p>FOSDEM's Legal and Policy Issues Devroom addresses important <a href="/freesoftware/freesoftware.html#synonyms">Free Software (also called Open Source Software)</a>
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related policy or legal topics. Our community has substantial expertise in this area yet there are few venues to discuss these matters in a forum open to all. Hackers,
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developers, contributors, lawyers, policy experts, and community leaders all possess expertise in these matters. At the Legal and Policy Issues Devroom we come together
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for a fruitful exchange on these questions:</p>
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<p>On Saturday we start with an <a href="https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/ecoss/">interview with Evangelos Tsavalopoulos from the European Commission</a> on the new Open
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Source strategy of the Commission. The strategy was presented on 21 October 2020 and we will shed light on the first activities since then and address critical voices that
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have been raised in the last months.</p>
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<p>The interview will be followed by a talk at 15:00 CET by Deb Nicholson and Hong Phuc Dang on:
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<a href="https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/avoiduscentric/">Open Source Culture is Very US-Centric, But It Shouldn't Be. How Can We Make FOSS Truly Global?</a></p>
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<p>At 15:30 we will learn more about Software and Hardware Freedom in Health public policy. Fabio Balli, Adriana Groh and Luis Falcon will be on a panel and
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<a href="https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/healthpublicpolicy/">discuss the extent to which the use of Free Software and open hardware can be used in the public health sector</a>.
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The panel will be moderated by Karen Sandler.</p>
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<p>The panel will be followed by a talk by Sven Franck who addresses the issue of lacking a financial base for software projects. He demands
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<a href="https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/fosstaxbreak/">Give open source a (tax) break </a> at 16:30</p>
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<p>The closing panel of the day starts at 17:00 and focuses on licence compliance questions: John Sullivan, Miriam Ballhausen, Davide Ricci and Eilís Ní Fhlannagáin will
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discuss: <a href="https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/compliancepanel/">Open Source and Free Software License Compliance And Users - Do Present Compliance Practices
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Assure Software Freedom for Device Users?</a> The panel will be moderated by Bradley M. Kuhn.</p>
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<p>On Sunday, Vittorio Bertola will kick off the day with a talk on <a href="https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/digitalmarketsact/">Open Source, Interoperability and the
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Digital Markets Act - New European regulation proposals to open up the dominant platform </a> at 14:00.</p>
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<p>At 14:30, this talk will be followed by a talk on licensing issues in a large community by Cornelius Schumacher:
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<a href="https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/qtproprietaryrelicensing/">Protecting against proprietary re-licensing with a community contract -
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How the KDE Free Qt Foundation ensures software freedom for twenty-five years and counting</a></p>
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<p>At 15:30, the FSFE’s Deputy Legal Coordinator, Lucas Lasota, will present an overview on the current state of <a href="https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/netneutrality/">
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Router Freedom in Europe and the consequences for Free Software users worldwide</a>.</p>
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<p>At 16:00 we will have another discussion on licencing, this time about a specific court case: Giovanni Battista Gallus, Fabio Pietrosanti, Carlo Piana and Alberto Pianon
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will talk about <a href="https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/agplcompliance/">the first AGPL compliance case settled in an Italian Court</a>.</p>
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<p>To close the devroom, the organisers of the Legal and Policy Devroom – Max Mehl and Alexander from the FSFE, Karen Sandler and Bradley Kuhn from Software Freedom Conservancy,
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and Richard Fontana from Red Hat – will <a href="https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/organizerslegalpolicy/">summarise the issues of the day and tackle some topics that have been
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missing on the agenda</a> at 17:00.</p>
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<p>Beside the talks at the Legal and Policy Issues Devroom you should also consider attending the talk by Max Mehl on
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<a href="https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/reuse/">REUSE - Best practices for declaring copyright and licenses</a> which will take place at the OpenChain devroom on Saturday at 15:45.</p>
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<p>If you want to stay updated and are interested in our other activities and talks around FOSDEM you can visit <a href="https://stands.fosdem.org/stands/free_software_foundation_europe/">our
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digital booth</a> or follow us on social media. Also visit the <a href="https://fosdem.org/2021/">official FOSDEM page</a> during the event for general updates.</p>
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<p>We are all looking forward e-meeting you during FOSDEM for fruitful exchange, debates and networking.</p>
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