[ossig] [myoss] jayakumar speaking at foss.in

[Ezwan Aizat Bin Abdullah Faiz]

A round to applause to Jaya Kumar for his contributing efforts to Free
and Open Source Software. :)

Regards,
Aizat

On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 20:54 +0800, Ditesh Kumar wrote:
> Our very own JayaKumar (from http://foss.in/2006/info/Final_List ) is
> speaking at foss.in, one of the largest foss conferences in the world.
> 
> Anybody local going?
> 
> The abstract of Jaya's talk: The September 15th, 2006 kernel developer
> position statement on the Draft2 version of GPLv3 will likely be flaged
> as an important date in Linux's history. The impact of this debate on
> developers, employers and users is rapidly coming to the fore. GPLv2
> licensing has imparted a distinct flavour on who, why, where, when, and
> how the Linux kernel codebase is developed.
> 
> This talk will therefore attempt to provide attendees with a clear
> understanding of the GPLv3 draft license and the ways it may impact
> GPLv2 only kernel code and other system software. This talk will also
> cover exposure to the broad range of supporting and detracting opinions
> (from leading kernel developers as well as others) and an analysis of
> the implications of this license for kernel developers, their employers,
> users and distributors. The hope is to encourage more local developers
> and businesses to get involved in determining what's right for us. 
> 
> Specifically, this talk will address the following:
> - the kernel and software patents with respect to the GPLv3 patent
> implications, explaining conveyance and Clause 11 of GPLv3 in greater
> detail
> - DRM, Tivoization, hardware implications of authorization keys and the
> details of Tivoization in the context of "read only source distribution"
> where the end user has the right to understand/see the claimed source on
> a device but not the ability to alter the behaviour of the device
> - pro/con positions and supporting/rejecting quotes from core kernel
> developers such as Ingo Molnar, James Bottomley, Andrew Tridgell among
> others.
> - moral implications and fundamental freedoms for developers,
> distributors and users balanced with practical considerations on the
> impact of licensing together with legislation
> - role of FSF and GNU codebase and FSF copyright assignments if forking
> happened
> - uncontroversial sections of GPLv3 such as internationalized wording,
> potential license unification with Apache/Eclipse
> - author's rights
> 
> Ditesh
> 
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