diff --git a/gpl-lgpl.tex b/gpl-lgpl.tex index f07f56d8a775a57f01d58fef2685141c4fd39ec5..3ce5d04c5d9ec0b1c64b76fc33711f73153cf6f6 100644 --- a/gpl-lgpl.tex +++ b/gpl-lgpl.tex @@ -111,91 +111,7 @@ available at \verb=https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode=. \pagenumbering{roman} -\chapter*{The GPL and Legal Aspects of Free Software Development} - -\textit{Columbia Law School, New York, NY, 28 September 2005} - -\begin{tabular}[t]{ll} -09:00 - 09:25 & Registration / Check-in / Continental Breakfast\\ -&\\ -09:25 - 09:30 & Welcome\\ -&\\ -09:30 - 10:30 & The Basics of How Software is Constructed\\ -& \textit{David Turner}\\ -&\\ -10:30 - 11:15 & The Free Software Ecosystem\\ -& \textit{David Turner}\\ -&\\ -11:15 - 11:30 & Break\\ -&\\ -11:30 - 12:15 & How Copyright Law Applies to Software\\ -& \textit{Daniel Ravicher}\\ -&\\ -12:15 - 13:30 & Lunch with Lecture, ``GPL, Version 3''\\ -& \textit{Prof. Eben Moglen}\\ -&\\ -\end{tabular} - -\begin{tabular}[t]{ll} -13:30 - 15:30 & How the GPL Works from a Distributor Perspective\\ -& \textit{Daniel Ravicher}\\ -&\\ -15:30 - 15:45 & Break\\ -&\\ -15:45 - 17:15 & GPL Compliance\\ -& \textit{Daniel Ravicher}\\ -&\\ -17:15 - 18:00 & Future Considerations\\ -& \textit{Daniel Ravicher}\\ -&\\ -\end{tabular} - -\chapter*{About the Speakers} - -\section*{Eben Moglen} - -Eben Moglen is Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia -University Law School and General Counsel of the Free Software -Foundation. Professor Moglen earned his PhD in History and law degree -at Yale University during what he sometimes calls his "long, dark -period" in New Haven. After law school he clerked for Judge Edward -Weinfeld of the United States District Court in New York City and to -Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He has -taught at Columbia Law School -- and has held visiting appointments at -Harvard University, Tel-Aviv University and the University of Virginia --- since 1987. In 2003 he was given the Electronic Frontier -Foundation's Pioneer Award for efforts on behalf of freedom in the -electronic society. - -\section*{Daniel Ravicher} - -Dan Ravicher is a registered patent attorney with extensive experience -litigating, licensing, prosecuting, and otherwise counseling clients -with respect to patents. Prior to founding PUBPAT, Mr. Ravicher was -associated with the patent law practice groups of Skadden, Arps, -Slate, Meagher \& Flom LLP, Brobeck, Phleger \& Harrison, LLP, and -Patterson, Belknap, Webb \& Tyler, LLP, all in New York, and served the -Honorable Randall R. Rader, Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of -Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. Mr. Ravicher has -published several legal articles and given numerous presentations -regarding patent law. Mr. Ravicher received his law degree from the -University of Virginia School of Law, where he was the Class of 2000 -Franklin O'Blechman Scholar, a Mortimer Caplin Public Service Award -recipient and Editor of the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, -and his bachelors degree in materials science magna cum laude with -University Honors from the University of South Florida. - -\section*{David Turner} - -David Turner has been a GNU GPL Compliance Engineer for the Free -Software Foundation for three and a half years. Mr. Turner consults -with companies and individuals about free software licensing in -general, focusing on the FSF's licenses. Mr. Turner has given -presentations on the GPL around the world. In addition, Mr. Turner -has written software to help manage copyright assignments and -determine copyright ownership. He has experience with several -languages including C, Python, Perl and Java. Mr. Turner is presently -working on the next version of the GNU GPL. +\part{The GPL and Legal Aspects of Free Software Development} \chapter*{Preface}