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+# Legal Issues at FOSDEM 2014
+
+I'm very pleased to announce the [Call For Participation][cfp] for the
+[FOSDEM 2014][fosdem] Legal Issues DevRoom.
+
+This is the third year that I've been lucky enough to collaborate
+with some leading practitioners of Free Software and Open Source
+licensing and community leadership to organize this intense event
+on the topic of what makes FLOSS possible and what are the key
+issues facing FLOSS today.  I'm joined by my friends [Karen Sandler][karen],
+[Bradley Kuhn][bkuhn], and [Richard Fontana][fontana].
+
+I have been fascinated by the intersection of law and technology
+because it is the clever use of copyright that makes Free, Libre
+and Open Source Software possible. We hope to stimulate discussion
+on topics such as:
+
+* Copyleft vs. permissive licensing: What is a policy case for copyleft?
+  If so what form should it take?
+* How is software freedom important in ensuring privacy and security?
+* What defines a Free Software and/or Open Source project?
+* Do traditional Free Software values face some level of cooption
+  from for-profit corporate interest?  If so, how?
+* Copyleft licensing models and how they relate to business models.
+  Are there some business models that are license-permissible but bad for
+  community building? On the other side, does your license choice limit
+  or expand your community?
+* Eroding software freedom in the proliferation of closed computing devices
+  such as mobile phones and tablets
+* Copyleft enforcement and compliance planning from a developer perspective.
+  What is the future of GPL enforcement? Is it working?
+* What is its impact on adoption of copyleft?
+* How does the 'so-called' software patent war impact Free Software and Open Source?
+* Copyleft license compatibility. What are the challenges of code base merges
+  when various licenses are in use? How does a compatibility analysis between licenses work?
+
+Please submit your talk idea before December 1st and plan to join us in Brussels on February 1st and 2nd!
+
+* [Legal Issues at FOSDEM 2013][legal2013]
+* [Legal Issues at FOSDEM 2012][legal2012]
+
+
+<a href="http://fosdem.org">
+<img src="https://fosdem.org/2014/assets/beer-0959447aa8de8fb36fc647b6b2cd2ed987d5ab33bf4a130596a0ba16d61c5824.jpg" alt="A Big glass of Belgian beer">
+</a>
+
+[fosdem]: https://fosdem.org/
+[cfp]: https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2013-November/001875.html
+[karen]: http://blogs.gnome.org/gnomg/
+[bkuhn]: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/
+[fontana]: https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/speaker/richard_fontana/
+[legal2013]: https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/track/legal_issues/
+[legal2012]: https://archive.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/legal_issues_devroom.html
+
+[[!tag fosdem 2014]]