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Articles of interest
Top 10 legal issues for free software of 2013 (opensource.com)
Opensource.com covers some legal issues faced in 2013. Topics include Android patent litigation, license compliance, forks, enforcement, GitHub's license selection policy, good news in the patent wars, FOSS in government and in the private sector, contributor agreements, and collaborations. "On June 14, 2013, the district court of Hamburg found that Fantec violated the obligation in the GPLv2 to provide to its customers the "complete corresponding source code" of the software. Fantec objected that it had been assured by its Chinese supplier that the source code received from the supplier was complete. And Fantec claimed that they had investigated options with third parties for source code analysis and had been informed that such reviews were quite expensive and not completely reliable. The court rejected these excuses."
SFC Fiscal Year 2012 report
The Software Freedom Conservancy has published its annual report for the fiscal year ending February 28, 2013.
New Books
New from No Starch Press: "Learn to Program with Scratch"
No Starch Press has released "Learn to Program with Scratch", by Majed Marji.
Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: February 13, 2014 to April 14, 2014
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 14 | May 12 May 16 |
OpenStack Summit | Atlanta, GA, USA |
| February 27 | August 20 August 22 |
USENIX Security '14 | San Diego, CA, USA |
| March 10 | June 9 June 10 |
Erlang User Conference 2014 | Stockholm, Sweden |
| March 14 | May 20 May 22 |
LinuxCon Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| March 14 | July 1 July 2 |
Automotive Linux Summit | Tokyo, Japan |
| March 14 | May 23 May 25 |
FUDCon APAC 2014 | Beijing, China |
| March 16 | May 20 May 21 |
PyCon Sweden | Stockholm, Sweden |
| March 17 | June 13 June 15 |
State of the Map EU 2014 | Karlsruhe, Germany |
| March 21 | April 26 April 27 |
LinuxFest Northwest 2014 | Bellingham, WA, USA |
| March 31 | July 18 July 20 |
GNU Tools Cauldron 2014 | Cambridge, England, UK |
| March 31 | September 15 September 19 |
GNU Radio Conference | Washington, DC, USA |
| March 31 | June 2 June 4 |
Tizen Developer Conference 2014 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| March 31 | April 25 April 28 |
openSUSE Conference 2014 | Dubrovnik, Croatia |
| April 3 | August 6 August 9 |
Flock | Prague, Czech Republic |
| April 4 | June 24 June 27 |
Open Source Bridge | Portland, OR, USA |
| April 5 | June 13 June 14 |
Texas Linux Fest 2014 | Austin, TX, USA |
| April 7 | June 9 June 10 |
DockerCon | San Francisco, CA, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Lawrence Lessig to speak at SCALE 12X
Lawrence Lessig will be speaking at the Southern California Linux Expo on February 21, 2014 "Lessig is the director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He is also a founding memeber of Creative Commons and a founder of Rootstrikers, and is a former board member of the Free Software Foundation, Software Freedom Law Center and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.". SCALE will take place February 21-23 in Los Angeles, CA.
Events: February 13, 2014 to April 14, 2014
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| February 14 February 16 |
Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe Winter 2014 | Minsk, Belarus |
| February 21 February 23 |
conf.kde.in 2014 | Gandhinagar, India |
| February 21 February 23 |
Southern California Linux Expo | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| February 25 | Open Source Software and Govenrment | McLean, VA, USA |
| February 28 March 2 |
FOSSASIA 2014 | Phnom Penh, Cambodia |
| March 3 March 7 |
Linaro Connect Asia | Macao, China |
| March 6 March 7 |
Erlang SF Factory Bay Area 2014 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| March 15 March 16 |
Chemnitz Linux Days 2014 | Chemnitz, Germany |
| March 15 March 16 |
Women MiniDebConf Barcelona 2014 | Barcelona, Spain |
| March 18 March 20 |
FLOSS UK 'DEVOPS' | Brighton, England, UK |
| March 20 | Nordic PostgreSQL Day 2014 | Stockholm, Sweden |
| March 21 | Bacula Users & Partners Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| March 22 March 23 |
LibrePlanet 2014 | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| March 22 | Linux Info Tag | Augsburg, Germany |
| March 24 March 25 |
Linux Storage Filesystem & MM Summit | Napa Valley, CA, USA |
| March 24 | Free Software Foundation's seminar on GPL Enforcement and Legal Ethics | Boston, MA, USA |
| March 26 March 28 |
Collaboration Summit | Napa Valley, CA, USA |
| March 26 March 28 |
16. Deutscher Perl-Workshop 2014 | Hannover, Germany |
| March 29 | Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2014 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| March 31 April 4 |
FreeDesktop Summit | Nuremberg, Germany |
| April 2 April 4 |
Networked Systems Design and Implementation | Seattle, WA, USA |
| April 2 April 5 |
Libre Graphics Meeting 2014 | Leipzig, Germany |
| April 3 | Open Source, Open Standards | London, UK |
| April 7 April 8 |
4th European LLVM Conference 2014 | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| April 7 April 9 |
ApacheCon 2014 | Denver, CO, USA |
| April 8 April 10 |
Open Source Data Center Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| April 8 April 10 |
Lustre User Group Conference | Miami, FL, USA |
| April 11 April 13 |
PyCon 2014 | Montreal, Canada |
| April 11 | Puppet Camp Berlin | Berlin, Germany |
| April 12 April 13 |
State of the Map US 2014 | Washington, DC, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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