% case-study-ethics.tex -*- LaTeX -*- % Tutorial Text for GPL Compliance Case Studies % and Legal Ethics in Free Software Licensing % % Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. % Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire document is permitted in % any medium, provided this notice is preserved. \documentclass[12pt]{report} % FILTER_PS: \input{generate-ps-file} % FILTER_PDF: \input{generate-pdf-file} % FILTER_HTML: \input{generate-html-file} \input{one-inch-margins} %\setlength\parskip{0.7em} %\setlength\parindent{0pt} \newcommand{\defn}[1]{\emph{#1}} %\pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \begin{titlepage} \begin{center} \vspace{.5in} {\Large {\sc GPL Compliance Case Studies and Legal Ethics in Free Software Licensing } \\ \vspace{.7in} Sponsored by the Free Software Foundation \\ \vspace{.3in} Columbia Law School, New York, NY, USA \\ \vspace{.1in} Wednesday 21 January 2003 } \vspace{.7in} {\large Bradley M. Kuhn Executive Director Free Software Foundation } \vspace{.3in} {\large Daniel Ravicher Senior Counsel Free Software Foundation } \end{center} \vfill {\parindent 0in Copyright \copyright{} 2004 \hspace{.2in} Free Software Foundation, Inc. \vspace{.3in} Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire document is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. } \end{titlepage} \pagestyle{plain} \pagenumbering{roman} \begin{abstract} This one-day course presents the details of five different GPL compliance cases handled by FSF's GPL Compliance Laboratory. Each case offers unique insights into problems that can arise when the terms of GPL are not properly followed, and how diplomatic negotiation between the violator and the copyright holder can yield positive results for both parties. This course also includes a unit on the ethical considerations for attorneys who want to represent clients that make use of or sell Free Software products. Attendees should have successfully completely the course, a ``Detailed Study and Analysis of GPL and LGPL'', as the material from that course forms the building blocks for this material. The course is of most interest to lawyers who have clients or employers that deal with Free Software on a regular basis. However, technical managers and executives whose businesses use or distribute Free Software will also find the course very helpful. \end{abstract} \tableofcontents \pagebreak \pagenumbering{arabic} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \chapter{Overview of FSF's GPL Compliance Lab} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \chapter{Case Study A} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \chapter{Case Study B} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \chapter{Case Study C} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \chapter{Case Study D} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \chapter{Good Practices for Compliance} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \chapter{Ethical Considerations for the Attorney Practicing Free Software} \end{document} % LocalWords: proprietarize redistributors sublicense yyyy Gnomovision EULAs % LocalWords: Yoyodyne FrontPage improvers Berne copyrightable Stallman's GPLs % LocalWords: Lessig Lessig's UCITA pre PDAs CDs reshifts GPL's Gentoo glibc % LocalWords: TrollTech administrivia LGPL's MontaVista OpenTV