List of Free Software/Open Source-savvy Lawyers
Need legal services that relate to Free Software and Open Source? The following lawyers and organizations have proven expertise in the area. While they may not be able to provide services to you, they may be able to recommend other lawyers in your region who are.
Axel Metzger
Heather J. Meeker
Keith Moulsdale
Laura Majerus
Lawrence Rosen
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Audio for Copyright, Contracts and Licensing for PHP Developers session
The organizers of the PHP Québec Conference were gracious enough to give me an unedited copy of my Copyright, Contracts and Licensing for PHP Developers session.
I cleaned the audio up last night, stripping out some of the more odious filler words (I seem to say "Umm" rather often), shortening pauses as I switched slides, removing [...]
About Zak Greant: Bio and Background
Hi! My name is Zak Greant and I've tired of writing things in the third person (at least for today.)
I own a strategic consultancy called Foo Associates – we help technology organizations adapt to and thrive on the electronic frontier. We're a tiny shop, but we've got great clients (like eZ Systems AS and the [...]
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Machine-readable licensing blocks
One of our recent activities at eZ has been to rework our licensing. While most of the changes have been related to improving the agreements involved (simplifying, internationalizing, improving the legal robustness, etc.) we plan to make some changes to how we attach licensing information to our source code.
The basic plan is to drop in [...]
Presenting at the PHP Quebec Conference 2006
Hurray! My sessions for the 2006 edition of the PHP Quebec Conference have been accepted.
I will be presenting on an old favourite (Free/Open software licensing) and a new favourite (SQLite).
The sessions are titled Copyright, Contracts and Licenses for PHP Developers and SQLite: A fast, transactional DBMS embedded in PHP 5
Amusingly, the organizers found a picture [...]