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Seminars on free software licensing & GPL compliance

byJoshua Gay Contributions — Published on May 28, 2014 02:59 PM The FSF's Licensing & Compliance Lab provides educational seminars on free software licenses. While registration is open to the public, our seminars generally target law students and legal professionals. When possible we try to get our courses approved for continuing legal education (CLE) credits. The FSF regularly provides these seminars as a way to ensure that the legal community has access to high quality in-depth education on the workings of free software licenses. While we provide many materials for a general audience, these seminars and the materials they generate are directed at legal professionals and law geeks. The seminars are generally one-day in-person events, where attendees can meet and learn from top professionals in the field of free software licensing. You can keep up to date on announcements of future events by joining our FSF Licensing mailing list, or check out educational materials from our previous events, listed below.

GPL Enforcement and Legal Ethics, 2019

Held on October 16, 2019, at the Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, NC. The instructors included John Sullivan, Marc Jones, J.D., Justin C. Colannino, J.D., Donald R. Robertson, III, J.D., and Pamela Chestek, J.D.

Educational Materials

●Copyleft and the GNU General Public License: A comprehensive tutorial and guide ●Pamela Chestek -- Model trademark guidelines ●Pamela Chestek -- Who owns the project name? ●Pamela Chestek -- FOSSmarks: A practical guide to understanding trademarks in the context of free and open source software projects ●Donald Robertson -- The changing face of license proliferation ●Donald Robertson -- Proliferation licenses discussed

Event Information

●Speaker biographies ●Announcement ●Registration ●News post about registration ●Blog post

GPL Enforcement and Legal Ethics, 2018

Held on September 27, 2018 at UC Berkeley School of Law in Berkeley, CA. The instructors included: Karen Sandler, Bradley Kuhn, and Donald R. Robertson, III, J.D.

Educational Materials

●Copyleft and the GNU General Public License: A comprehensive tutorial and guide ●Reference free, libre, and open source software policy for financial services institutions ●California Department of Technology code reuse letter ●Federal Source Code Policy ●NZGOAL Software Extension

Event Information

●Announcement ●Registration

GPL Enforcement and Legal Ethics, 2014

Held on March 24, 2014 at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, MA. The instructors included Karen Sandler, Bradley Kuhn, and Donald R. Robertson, III, J.D..