Copyleft Business Models: Why it’s Good Not to Be Your Competitor’s Free Lunch (Keynote Address, Open Source Business Conference)
Where: The Palace Hotel, San Francisco
When: 22 May 2007, 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM Pacific
Who: Eben Moglen
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.