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This talk will address common legal organizational issues facing free and open source software projects. The discussion will provide a background in nonprofit corporate and tax information, streamlined for helping developers evaluate how best to form and manage their organizations and activities. Different forms of organization will be discussed, including incorporated nonprofits, umbrella organizations and developers acting without legal form. Karen will also explore the obligations that individuals take on as they volunteer their time with these various types of organizations.
Bradley M. Kuhn will be the guest on the Linux Link Technology Show on Wednesday 14 November 2007 at 8:30 PM US/Eastern. Streaming is available for the live show, and there is a MP3 and a Ogg Podcast feed for the show as well. Direct links to the audio are available below.
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Bradley M. Kuhn will participate in a panel discussion entitled Arriving at the FOSS Solution Why FOSS? at a UNITAR Web Seminar on ICT Policy Issues on Development Impacts of FOSS. Online registration is available.
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- Video posted June 10, 2008
Bradley M. Kuhn gave the evening keynote at The Ohio Linux Fest 2007.
Abstract
Over the last decade, Open Source and Free Software finally achieved a new level of mainstream success; it has become an integral part of our technological infrastructure. While this software freedom movement was founded by those who wrote the software, it is defended by the licensing structures and legal systems that were designed to respect, rather than reject, the rights of users. These freedoms — which allow users to copy, share, modify and redistribute that software — created a unique ecosystem that allowed the community to flourish.
In this talk, Kuhn will discuss his ongoing efforts (which he began a decade ago as a graduate student at Ohio’s own University of Cincinnati) to help preserve, protect and promote these freedoms embodied in software freedom licenses like the GPL. Kuhn will outline his past work at the Free Software Foundation in this regard, explain the motivations and ideas that led to the creation and fruition of the Software Freedom Law Center and the Software Freedom Conservancy, and discuss the challenges that lie ahead for defending software freedom.
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http://linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO07A/conference/tracksessions/Legal%20and%20Licensing/QMONYB000ZV0