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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This is a stick up! Hand over your copyright!
Copyright assignment (the practice of asking contributors to a project to assign their copyright to the project owner) always makes me a bit uncomfortable.
From a business perspective, holding all of the copyright for your products provides important advantages (usually ones that relates to making money or managing risk).
From a normal human perspective, it sucks to [...]
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Sharing information
One of the first discussions that some of the eZ team had with Sandro, when he started his post as our CKO, was how we could deal with the challenge of effectively sharing our information as we continue to grow.
There are many possible solutions for this problem. A lot of them involve long proposals, UML [...]
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 [...]
Preparing for upcoming sessions on Free and Open Software licensing
Over the next few months, I need to prepare for a series of sessions on contracts, copyright and licensing - especially as they pertain to Free Software and Open Source.
To do this, I plan on writing a series of concise articles that answer common questions in this topic area.
I have a draft list of questions, [...]
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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 [...]
MySQL GPL License Exception published
My own witty++ announcement can be found here:http://zak.greant.com/archives/000618.html
Tags: License, MySQL, Uncategorized
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