Advancing the Mozilla Manifesto

Most regular readers of this blog are familiar with the Mozilla Manifesto and with the work that the Mozilla Corporation undertakes to advance the manifesto. It is good work. Actually, it is great work from a great community of people. However, the corporation focuses most on Firefox and the related software and communities. The manifesto [...]

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Links for "Understanding Free Software and Open Source Licensing" attendees

I gave an ad hoc presentation on the last day of the International PHP Conference. During the presentation, I mentioned a few resources, which I have listed below:

The Free Software Foundation Website
The Free Software Definition
List of Approved Free Software Licenses

The Open Source Initiative Website
The Open Source Definition
List of Approved Open Source Licenses

The Software Freedom Law [...]

Barcelona to host the 3rd Intl. Conference on the GPL v3

The 3rd international conference on GPL v3 will take place in Barcelona, Spain on June 22nd and 23rd. The international GPLv3 conferences are part of a year-long public consultation process to update the GNU General Public License.
Speakers include Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen, chairman at Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and Georg Greve, President of Free [...]

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 [...]