 Ninth edition of our little conference and I have a horrible echo on this microphone but I'll just try to live with it. Yeah if you ask a conference organizer what they like best about a conference you will get two answers depending on when you ask them. If you ask them during the conference they will say in a bit of a grumpy voice the day after but if you ask them after the conference or a couple of months before the conference they'll say I like doing the opening talk it gives me a chance to talk to all these people who are expecting something interesting and making them wait. So yeah I wanted to do a long opening talk but it's going to be a short one again so I would like my next slide from my assistant and not that one. That one good. Well the life of a conference organizer is one of recurring nightmares. Last night or the night before last I didn't sleep I was thinking what if no one shows up how unbelievably stupid will I feel if I am at the bar all alone and no one will be there or what will it feel like to talk to an empty auditorium it's well not quite empty but not full enough. And then after the nightmare phase there is the firefighting phase the beer event last night I'll talk a bit about it later went fairly well but after I got to the couch I was surfing my phone started ringing and it kept ringing it's amazing how many things can go wrong when you organize a conference and then of course there's the solution to all this it's caffeine there's lots of it Leslie tells me it tastes bad but it's caffeine and then there's the adrenaline you know keep us going. So this conference would not be possible without our sponsors we've got the usual suspects up there for whom we are eternally grateful Riley has their stand with books Josette has lots and lots of books there's even a book about small dogs so I don't know what that does in our shipment but she's got it and then novel is on our cornerstone sponsors as well and then we've got all these other nice people noteworthy is Cisco who are doing wireless you see these people over there they are not quite smiling yet once they start smiling the wireless is working there's currently a captive portal which speaks SSL with a self-signed certificates I suggest you ask one of the Cisco guys for the fingerprints before you trust it because it is you know Mozilla will complain last night we had our little beer event it was little and Google was kind enough to sponsor some free beer we like that very much so in addition to the sponsors we like donations we actually love donations this year we made the donation form easier so you can donate more and more easily we've got beautiful t-shirts with a new logo with lots of cloudy things and brainy things the usual O'Reilly books and pockets if you donate enough and then tomorrow we will do our annual notorious donations draw there are some Nokia gadgets to win again some bug labs gadgets with arm CPUs you plug them together and they do shiny things for you and then there's the more books and pockets I think it's five books you can win two times five books so if you're very lucky you have lots of things to read and magazine subscriptions in various languages so do dates much and donate often and get a free t-shirt and show it to everyone so this beer event of mine how many people were to be events okay how many of you are somewhat hungover hmm same crowd yes nine years ago I had this bright idea of you know if people are going to show up at the conference on time we won't have time to set up the conference people who want to use wireless network and there won't be wireless network so let's treat these people to a beer somewhere in the center of Brussels and get them hungover so they show up a bit later that idea backfired slightly every year we bust some records which are on the next slide if it's going to get there so did anyone try to count how many people were in there according to fire regulations about 750 should fit in a bar at one time of course we have the bar and the bar across the roads and the roads and the road next to the roads and I think there were people downstairs probably oozing into other streets so many people and my beer distribution algorithm version 3.0 incorporating free beer as a storm control system you just had to be there worked very well we had a total bill of not quite 10,000 euro when I left at midnight and at three o'clock one of my phone calls was from a Swiss gentleman who asked me does it still make sense to go to the beer event at this time yeah probably let me know if there's any people left and then ten people ten minutes later he called me back and I said it's still packed with people here so yeah I think the total bill was something to be proud of thank you and thank you Google for sponsoring free beer wherever Leslie is there's Leslie free beer as goods we like free beer so so that was the philosophical part of this opening talk at the info desk you find these little booklets the booklet is your friend it has everything you need to know about the conference in it there's practical information about just about everything there are talk schedules which are somewhat up to date with reality if I keep talking too long then they get sink there's an area mapping there as well if you get hungry we have our Belgian fries somewhere out here and then there's all the local establishment with tasty stuff for you the network as I've mentioned is still in a state of flux I still don't see any particularly smiley faces but you know it sends good vibes to them and it'll work there is a I mentioned the captive portal if that works it will point you to any last minute announcements which we might like to make like fire fire and things like that the ESS ID is for them with a capital if and small other letters for reasons unknown to me and well oh yes I was going to say things about new things the last minute slide we have a cloakroom this year you can just leave your valuable stuff in there we're not exactly responsible for it but we will try to keep them safe there's a shuttle service to the south station Sunday evening there's times in the booklets they may or may not reflect reality but we'll do our best to make them reflect reality and if you get lost confused or arrested during the event you can call this number and we will try to well unconfuse and unlose you and we don't know if you can do anything about arrested but we will certainly try and I think that concludes my talk does it no it doesn't oh yes we don't like trash we hate cleaning up after a conference we're not your mother but you know use common sense and if you see something roaming around which shouldn't be roaming find a bin and put it in there so that really does conclude my talk and before I hand you over to the capable hands of our real keynote speaker Mark sermons Simon wanted to say something interesting from a sunny software company who also happens to sponsor us but here is Simon I'm sort of setting up the laptop for marketing it's a laptop dance while yeah while we're waiting for this laptop thing and the laptop dance we'll do the first and dance so can I ask you over the yellow t-shirts to come and join us for the first and dance it's we've been doing the first and dance for months now thank you if some visitors also want to join us they are free to do it it did okay we're running a bit late I'm moving fast moving fast but don't worry this is first half an hour break so okay so I've been tolerated for a just a brief warm-up here because we're worried that you know you you might still have a hangover I'd like to just talk to you briefly about the problems of long-term success which unfortunately I think that the free and open source movement is beginning to suffer from let me try and explain what I mean by those things 25 years ago last November Richard was starting the GNU project he had actually written the GPL at that stage that was something was going to come 25 years ago this year before he did all that there were some other folks who were working on some other code and they were working on a piece of code that made computers work over networks and we're talking here about deep history about stuff that works in the distant unknown past and when we look back at the things we did all those years ago to license the code that we wrote 27 years ago that is still in Linux it wasn't necessarily licensed in quite the way that seems appropriate these days in particular there is some code that's been hanging around in the Linux kernel for oh I don't know how long that does some interesting things I don't know whether you've gone if you've run into this code the ONC RPC code has been in existence I think the reference implementation is now 29 years old and it still has the original license on it from 29 years ago just to put that into perspective for you that predates the BSD license it comfortably predates the GPL now the license that went on that code 25 years ago was the the most liberal code you license you can possibly imagine if you are living 29 years ago it says basically you look use this code but please don't try and make a profit off it because well unless you're going to build it into something else that's fine that's what the license basically says now a number of years ago some fine people on the Debian legal mailing list discovered that this license was still in there you'll notice that this this bug here was opened in 2002 and this is so this is this is itself coming up for a substantial birthday what happened back then in 2002 is that the the fine guys from Debian got in touch with Denise Cooper who was doing my job at some back in those days and said excuse me would you mind re-licensing this Sun RPC code over to something which is DFSG free here's that here's the license down here and so we looked at this and let me explain to you what happens when you ask me to re-license a piece of code I have to find someone who knows what you're talking about and that isn't necessarily easy with a piece of code that was written in 1982 because the person who wrote it probably isn't with the company anymore the piece of code actually well no one owns it in Sun because the version of a Sun RPC that's in Debian is actually a derivative of a derivative of a derivative and so the code that's in there has got an embedded license statement that comes from years and years ago so with this piece of code we looked at it and said we've no idea where that's from and so the bug that the request inside Sun went to sleep we hoped everyone would forget about it and and indeed people did for a number of years if you if you look back at Debian bug 181 493 you'll find it kind of went to sleep for a really long time and then last year it woke up again and I got an email saying so look we're going to take this code out of Debian if you don't re-license it I said well where is this code they said well it's in Port Lib and it's in G Lib C so so you're going to take G Lib C out of Linux okay so we got some some lawyers working on this big problem because it's not actually code that my company uses in any product at the moment there's no product group to pay the lawyers and there's no engineer who knows the code to tell the lawyers what to actually go and investigate so I had a bunch of people working their spare time for about three four months trying to work out where this code comes from and I'm delighted to be able to give you a warm-up today to tell you that two days ago I was told we can re-license the Sun RPC code so that it can get shipped in Fedora and hey if you fancy changing G Lib C a week before release in Lenny you do want to change G Lib C a week before release don't you say yes no no so we've done and it's it's always good to celebrate occasions so you know this is the this is the birthday of this bug and let's where are we down here and so we're gonna have a little celebration it turns out that we can all live in happiness and harmony from here I've got another problem to solve so excuse me for a few weeks while I don't fix the next bug that BDAL has lined up for me out of the Debian database I've discovered that we've got to change Sun's terms of employment so that our employees can contribute to open source communities we should have done that maybe five years ago but we turned up when we bought my SQL that we had a problem so I hope to be able to come back to FOSDM next year and tell you how I've changed our terms of employment so all 30,000 employees can join open source communities but this I have to do for now so without any further ado we'll see whether the this computer is working here for Mark yeah I'm gonna tell a joke