GPL v3

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WOS will provide the chance to continue the debate about the GPL v3 draft

face-to-face
in an international context outside the USA.

The following topics could be discussed:

if the proposed changes are compatible with continental European legal system. In their (German) legal analysis of the GPL v3, Till Jaeger and Axel Metzger argue that the draft includes a few regulations that will result in disadvantages for software freedom vis-a-vis the GPL v2 in the continental European legal system.

the issue of the anti-DRM regulation that have been criticized, among others, by Linus Torvalds.

Possible Speakers

Till Jaeger, Axel Metzger, Institut für Rechtsfragen für Freie und Open Source-Software (ifrOSS)

Eben Moglen or another representative of the Free Software Foundation in the USA

Georg Greve or another representative of the Free Software Foundation Europe

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