Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026

schedule

Legal & Policy


09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Saturday Welcome to the Legal & Policy Issues DevRoom
An Introduction to Law and Free Software
The Hidden Layer: Bringing Protocol Governance into Digital Policy
From Policy To Practice; Open Source in The Dutch Government
Fork the Government:The Back and Forth Open Source Advocacy Road in Taiwan
CRA – Role of Free Software and Q&A
The story of the Vizio trial - how a historic case for user rights concluded
"Online Safety" laws: reflections for FOSS projects
Interoperability regulation in the EU: Opening iOS and Android for Free Software
Copyleft for the next Decade: My cunning Plan
Unique Challenges in Elected Governing Bodies for FOSS
Let's end open source together with this one simple trick
Closing of to the Legal & Policy Issues DevRoom

Read the Call for Papers at https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2025q4/003703.html.

Event Speakers Start End

Saturday

  Welcome to the Legal & Policy Issues DevRoom
Karen Sandler, Tom Marble, Alexander Sander, Bradley M. Kühn, Matthias Kirschner, Richard Fontana, Bradley M. Kühn 10:30 10:45
  An Introduction to Law and Free Software
Gabriel Ku Wei Bin 10:45 11:30
  The Hidden Layer: Bringing Protocol Governance into Digital Policy
Kelly Roegies 11:30 12:00
  From Policy To Practice; Open Source in The Dutch Government
Gina Plat 12:00 12:30
  Fork the Government:The Back and Forth Open Source Advocacy Road in Taiwan
Rosalind Liu 12:30 13:00
  CRA – Role of Free Software and Q&A
Alexander Sander, Michael Schuster 13:00 14:00
  The story of the Vizio trial - how a historic case for user rights concluded
Denver Gingerich 14:00 15:00
  "Online Safety" laws: reflections for FOSS projects
Neil Brown 15:00 15:30
  Interoperability regulation in the EU: Opening iOS and Android for Free Software
Lucas Lasota, Victor Le Pochat, Alexander Matern 15:30 16:30
  Copyleft for the next Decade: My cunning Plan
Sebastian Steck 16:30 17:00
  Unique Challenges in Elected Governing Bodies for FOSS
Bradley M. Kühn, Richard Fontana, Joe Brockmeier, Ian Kelling 17:00 18:00
  Let's end open source together with this one simple trick
Dylan Ayrey, Mike Nolan 18:00 18:50
  Closing of to the Legal & Policy Issues DevRoom
Karen Sandler, Tom Marble, Alexander Sander, Bradley M. Kühn, Matthias Kirschner, Richard Fontana 18:50 19:00