This talk is the journey of Craig’s discovery of the free software movement and how it solved his need to find a position in the fight for a better tomorrow. The hope is to inspire others to share this viewpoint of free software and to see how it is a critical factor for civilization if we want to avoid the nightmare dystopia which awaits us all if the free software movement fails.

This workshop involves walking participants through an evaluation process of a computer program’s licensing in order to determine if it is free software or not. This is not a master class on evaluating licenses for a mega-corporation, nor is it legal advice, and is not designed for lawyers. This is a grass roots level computer program evaluation process to determine if a program is licensed adequately to be called free software. Along the way, a reviewer may discover licensing issues or proprietary code files. They would then be in a position for sending suggestions to the project in order to resolve potential problems.