Free Software Licensing and the GNU GPL

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

Free Software Licensing and the GNU GPL
August 8, 2003
9am- 5pm
Stanford Law School
details

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 ravi@fsf.org or by phone at +1-617-620-9640.