teaches lawyers, software developers, managers and business people how to use

the GPL (and GPL'd software) successfully both as a community-building

``Constitution'' for a software project, and to incorporate copylefted

software into a new Free Software business and in existing, successful

enterprises.

have a general familiarity with software development processes.  A basic

understanding of how copyright law applies to software is also helpful.  The

tutorial is of most interest to lawyers, software developers and managers who

run or advise software businesses that modify and/or redistribute software

under the terms of the GNU GPL (or who wish to do so in the future), and those

who wish to make use of existing GPL'd software in their enterprise.