Free Software Licensing and the GNU GPL

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Subject: pho: Free Software Licensing and the GNU GPL
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 18:03:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Art McGee <[email protected]>
To: Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup <[email protected]>

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Stanford Law School's Center for
Internet and Society (CIS)* present:

Free Software Licensing and the GNU GPL
August 8, 2003
9am-5pm
Stanford Law School
http://patron.fsf.org/course-offering.html

On August 8, 2003 the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is conducting a one day
seminar on the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) at Stanford University
in Stanford California (USA). The seminar, titled "Free Software Licensing
and the GNU GPL", will be co-led by Daniel Ravicher, of Patterson Belknap
Webb & Tyler LLP and Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director of FSF. This
program is designed to offer lawyers and businesspeople, working in software
licensing, a complete introduction to the legal issues surrounding the
development and distribution of free software, such as the GNU operating
system, the Linux operating system kernel, etc.

In the morning session Mr. Kuhn will providing a general overview and the
motivations behind the GNU GPL. During the afternoon Mr. Ravicher will focus
on the detailed legal implications of the license. The seminar is being
co-sponsored by the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University
and CIS Executive Director and Stanford Law professor Larry Lessig will
speak during the lunch.

For more information, please visit
http://patron.fsf.org/course-offering.html or contact Ravi Khanna, Director
of Communication for the Free Software Foundation, at [email protected] or by
phone at +1-617-620-9640.

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