THE SCOTTISH SOCIETY FOR COMPUTERS AND LAW ANNUAL LECTURE 2007

Free software is irrevocably transforming the global software industry, challenging not only Microsoft’s dominance as a firm, but also the very idea of software-as-product that characterised the Microsoft Era. Now, with the release of version 3 of the GNU General Public License after eighteen months of public, global legislative process, the outlines of the new industrial structure are emerging.

More information available at scl.org

Available records

• Transcript posted July 9, 2007
• Audio posted July 9, 2007
• Video posted July 9, 2007

Panel discussion. More information available at www.linuxworldkorea.com.

Bradley M. Kuhn was interviewed on Season 4, Episode 19 of LUG Radio.

Now that the GPL wars are over, and we have two good GPLs to choose from, it is time to re-ask some fundamental questions about business models and software licenses. In this talk, I explain why smaller software-focused businesses will soon be deserting Apache- and BSD-style permissive licenses for GPL [2 3] and their successors.

More information available at conference website

Red Hat Summit site

Red Hat Summit site

Session details available at JavaOne website.

A discussion of software patents in the United States and how they may impact free and open source software projects.