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Wednesday, June 13 2007 @ 02:58 PM EDT
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Here's some news especially for practicing lawyers: the Software Freedom Law Center is offering you the chance to go to their offices in New York for 2-4 weeks and receive training in FOSS legal issues. They call it the Open Source Law Immersion Program. It makes me wish I were an attorney, frankly. I'll give you the details and where you go to apply in a moment. I hope a lot of lawyers take advantage of this chance to get up to speed on how to approach things like licensing and how to handle various types of legal threats against FOSS. As SFLC puts it, "legal support is becoming increasingly critical to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) development and use." So we all benefit when there are more lawyers familiar with FOSS legal issues. There's a second event happening today, the Linux Foundation's Linux Collaboration Summit, where Andy Updegrove is blogging away live and also moderating the legal panel later. From what he's writing so far, it appears the Linux Foundation is very much focusing on the legal defense of Linux, its uptake by corporate users, and standardization.
Here are all the details on the Software Freedom Law Center's Open Source Law Immersion Program:
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Open Source Law Immersion Program
The Software Freedom Law Center is now inviting applications for a resident legal experience designed for practicing lawyers interested in learning more about open source software through direct on-site exposure to SFLC's open source software law practice. Positions are somewhat flexible in scope and duration: SFLC will work with applicants to design a program lasting approximately 2-4 weeks. Positions are available year round and applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Applicants are expected to have some familiarity with open source software.
About the Program
As the body of high-quality open source software grows, legal support is becoming increasingly critical to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) development and use. The Software Freedom Law Center benefits the FOSS development ecosystem both by providing direct legal services and by promoting the general understanding of relevant legal issues. Most often, these issues include software licensing, trademarks, patents, government regulations on software, and aiding various nonprofit organizations within our community.
The SFLC Open Source Law Immersion Program is designed to provide practicing lawyers an opportunity to learn first-hand about these issues in open source law. The arrangement is designed to be mutually beneficial: the program fulfills SFLC's mission to promote better understanding of FOSS legal issues, and participating attorneys will benefit by becoming better prepared to handle FOSS legal issues in their own practice.
Applicants are encouraged to send a cover letter and resume to recruitment@softwarefreedom.org. Please send all materials in plain text or other open format (no .doc files), and feel free to include any additional requirements or questions with your application. Applicants will be selected on an ongoing basis throughout the year.
Lawyers licensed to practice in any country are invited to apply and participate in this program. However, please keep in mind that all participants will need to arrange for their own accommodations in the New York City area for the duration of the program. Participants will also be asked to make a contribution to SFLC to offset our costs in providing this opportunity.
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| Authored by: feldegast on Wednesday, June 13 2007 @ 03:19 PM EDT |
So they can be fixed
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2007 @ 03:31 PM EDT |
| to change career or retrain for something else :) [ Reply to This | # ]
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- to --> too - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2007 @ 04:28 PM EDT
- too--> to - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 14 2007 @ 01:55 AM EDT
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| Authored by: MathFox on Wednesday, June 13 2007 @ 03:32 PM EDT |
There must be other interesting Legal or Open Source issues.
Links can be made in HTML mode and we like a few lines of descriptive text.
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If an axiomatic system can be proven to be consistent and complete from within
itself, then it is inconsistent.[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2007 @ 03:54 PM EDT |
I misread that as SCO offering lawyers a law immersion program and it almost
made sense when I imagined them burying someone in wacky lawsuits... :-)[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2007 @ 06:53 PM EDT |
That's how it reads to me.
Moreover, the last thing a lawyer needs to properly defend FOSS against outside
attacks, is a brainwash @SFLC.
You don't need a Loon in the Court room. Trust me.[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: dwheeler on Thursday, June 14 2007 @ 12:33 AM EDT |
| This is great. There's a lot of misunderstandings around the legal
stuff.
I've tried to make a tiny step that I hope will help... and I'd love
to hear feedback/suggestions about it.
Basically, there are a number of
Free-Libre / Open Source Software (FLOSS) licenses, and many people still have
trouble figuring out when software with different liceses can be combined.
So
I've created a little figure which I call the “FLOSS license slide” to make it
easier to see if FLOSS licenses can be combined in many common cases.
I've
crafted it so that the figure and explanatory text all fit in a page, which can
be handy.
You can look at the FLOSS license slide in one of two
formats:
This is currently a
draft, because I'd really like to hear from others about this.
I mentioned this
in an earlier post, and have just updated the slide based on some feedback.
I'm
not a lawyer, but this is based on a lot of other material created by lawyers...
it's just summarized in a way that I hope is simple.
I hope that with "aids"
like this, some of the legal nonsense goes away.
Well, I can hope anyway.
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| Authored by: iraskygazer on Friday, June 15 2007 @ 01:18 PM EDT |
Has anybody noticed the atmosphere of fear building in the FOSS legal arena
since Microsoft has been making deals with all possible corporations, that could
be a thorn in their side? To me, it's obvious that M$quish is preparing to deal
with FOSS in the only way it knows. Neutralize competition that has resonable
financial strength and then attack the real competition through prolonged,
baseless litigation.
This M$ approach has been so successful that even the US Govt has been kept
under M$ corporate control. And worse, nobody in the US Govt is addressing the
fact that MS is again performing the same business practices or dirty anti-trust
violations that brought them through the courts over that past decade.[ Reply to This | # ]
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