# Roman: Legal affairs * Intro * Are you a lawyer? No? Then why do you get to do this work? * What kinds of issues come to your attention? * More generally, why is the law, licensing, and so on, so critical to the success of free software? Can't we all just get along? Isn't it sufficient to slap a license on it? Intro * Why does ASF need to have a lawyer to begin with? Who will ever sue us? * Are you a lawyer? No? Then why do you get to do this work? * Who else is involved in shepherding legal matters at the ASF? * What kinds of issues come to your attention? * More generally, why is the law, licensing, and so on, so critical to the success of free software? Can’t we all just get along? Isn’t it sufficient to slap a license on it? * Do developers really have to care about law and licenses? * It is pretty clear that ASF legal committee is valuable to the Foundation itself, is it also helping our downstream consumers? * Favorite open source bikeshedding question: ICLA, CCLA or DCO? * Partying thoughts?