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Staying focused (even with lots of interruptions)
A few months ago, while at the eZ systems summer conference, I was showing my focus deck to my friends Tony Wood and James Eichhorn. I promised to blog about it, but have taken a very long time to get to it. So, here's the deal: I have a simple and effective trick for keeping [...]
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Don't get pwn3d: Why Professionalism Matters In Community Discussions
Some years ago (as penance for working at MySQL during some temporary corporate brain-damage about Free Software licensing) I began volunteering at the Free Software Foundation.
For the most part, I have spent my time providing support on Free Software licensing questions for the FSF Compliance Lab and helping out on the GPL v3 effort.
While both [...]
Discuss *and* participate
Matt Asay posted some of his thoughts on the second draft of version three of the GPL.
It is good that Matt is providing rapid feedback on the new draft, after all the GPL v3 drafting process relies on community participation.
It is less good that Matt doesn't direct people to the FSF GPL v3 site or [...]
Streaming video from the 2nd International GPL v3 conference
Via Dave "Novalis" Turner:
We [will] be streaming video from the Second International Conference on GPLv3 at FISL in Porto Alegre, Brasil at:
http://gplv3.fsf.org/av
Please tune in!
Tags: conference, GPL v3, Licensing, Uncategorized
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Good Books on Free Software, Open Source and Intellectual Monopoly Law
This list has been created primarily to help one individual learn more about the laws and agreements which affect their business. As such, it is quite limited in scope. I plan to expand the list as time permits.
Free Software/Open Source-specific Resources:
A Legal Issues Primer for Open Source and Free Software Project (prepared by the [...]
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 [...]
Slides from PHP Québec Conf 2006
Slides from my presentations at the PHP Québec Conference are below:
Copyright, Contracts and Licenses for PHP Developers (PDF, 650KiB)
SQLite: A fast, transactional DBMS embedded in PHP 5 (PDF, 55KiB)
I will make the audio of the licensing session, along with a transcript, available as soon as possible.
Update:
Audio now available.
Tags: conference, Copyright, DBMS, License, Licensing, PHP, Quebec, [...]
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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 [...]