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KDE: New Legal Grounds KDE: New Legal Grounds Adriaan de Groot July 3rd 2010 Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 1/33 Who is this guy? KDE contributor since 1999 KDE e.V. board since 2006 NLUUG board since 2008 FSFE's FTF Coordinator 2009 Not a Lawyer Father of two kids Likes hoes and rows of potatoes Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 2/33 What is this talk? Why do we need legal stuff anyway? Copyrights Trademarks Patents Oh my! (or, how you can help) Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 3/33 Why do we need legal stuff anyway? Simple answer: because we live in the world we live in. Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 4/33 Copyright Software is intellectual work Considered creative work Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 5/33 Trademarks Software is recognizable \KDE is ours" Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 6/33 Patents Software solves problems Innovation worth fostering Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 7/33 Governance How do we work together normally How do we work together in adversity Who does what to whom Who owns stuff Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 8/33 Looking more closely How KDE does it Pros and cons Things to improve Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 9/33 Copyright Distributed copyright (held by individual contributors) Little oversight (no sign-off or contribution policy) Clear license policy (one of the fixed set of allowed terms) Assignment is possible (preferrably to KDE e.V.) Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 10/33 Constant Vigilance! <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.> Copyright (C) <year> <name of author> This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Should know better! This file is part of the KDE project Copyright (C) 2007 ... This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License version 2 or version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation. Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 11/33 What needs doing Refining the license-checking tool Watching over compatibility Keeping up with the discussion of the license policy Education Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 12/33 Aside: the license policy Preserve KDE as Free Software Encourage people to contribute Ensure easy updates to license Encourage adoption by corporations Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 13/33 Trademarks Exist once you trade with a name Convoluted regulation Something to protect and preserve Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 14/33 KDE is very weak in protection KDE grants broad usage to its trademarks KDE trademark policy is fuzzy Need to consider the word mark and the artwork KDE has a registered trademark of limited scope Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 15/33 What needs doing Remember who owns the KDE trademark Establish trademark early Respect the marks of others Hand off trademark issues to the experts Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 16/33 Patents Aieeeeeee! Run away! Run away! Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 17/33 Patents are limited-time monopolies for technical innovations granted in exchange for publication. Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 18/33 KDE ignores patents KDE doesn't claim patents KDE has been contacted regarding patents KDE developers worry about patents Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 19/33 Ignorance is not bliss Passing off risks to downstream is irresponsible Responsibility has costs Andrew Tridgell has a detailed and careful analysis for how to deal with patents. Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 20/33 What needs doing Have processes in place Understand how to cooperate around patents Better publication and creation of prior art Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 21/33 New Legal Grounds Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 22/33 Dealing with Patents Open Invention Network Holding company, founded by large technology players (e.g. IBM), formed to promote Linux by leveraging patents to create a collaborative environment. OIN Licensees vim, GNOME; Oracle; Canonical, Kolab Systems, Bacula. Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 23/33 License Agreement OIN grants patent license to licensee { All OIN patents and applications for all products Licensee grants patent license to OIN { All licensee patents and applications for the Linux System Licensee grants license to other current and future licensees { All licensee patents and applications for the Linux System Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 24/33 Working inside the patent system Cross-licensing scheme Increased publicity and prior art What needs doing KDE e.V. might join this week. Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 25/33 Contributor Agreements Copyright Holders Decentralized rights KDE FLA as an option Individual copyright assignment Reverts in case of evil Optional Signed by several dozen core contributors Signed by several companies Refused by some others Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 26/33 Project Harmony No, not that one... Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 27/33 Project Harmony Its (Project Harmony's) initial goal is to avoid proliferation in contribution agreements across FOSS software projects where those organisations chose to work with contribution agreements. Current Assignment Agreements FSFE FLA; KDE e.V. FLA; FSF assignment; Canonical. Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 28/33 Project Harmony is intended to assist organisations which use contribution agreements by providing standardised variable templates with clear and concise explanations; to come to a common understanding on these; and to recognise the relative maturity of FOSS by dealing with its internationalisation. Our goal is to make the process of contributing to FOSS projects easier for developers regardless of who their employers are. We believe that standardised contribution agreements should serve this goal. Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 29/33 What needs doing Reconsider the contribution model Consider what we want from companies Understand what companies want from us Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 30/33 The ground we stand on Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 31/33 Individual rightsholders Clear licensing policy Cooperation with downstream Liberal trademark license Realization that we have to live with patents Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 32/33 Questions ? This talk is released under a CC-BY-SA license. Adriaan de Groot [email protected] Adriaan de Groot | KDE: New Legal Grounds 33/33.
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