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This email includes instructions for hotel reservations and a keynote
talk summary and bio for the keynote speaker.<br>
Will<br>
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Hotel Reservations:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=2 color="#0000FF">The
hotel is Holiday Inn Select. The attendees may now call and make
their hotel reservations for the ITK Meeting. When they call they
should ask for Cheryl Hartwell, the Government Sales Manager. The
phone number is 301-652-2000. Please remind the attendees the rooms
will only be held at the government rate of $166 plus tax through
Thursday, October 6, 2005. Calling after October 6, the hotel
cannot guarantee that they will even have rooms available and will return
to the regular rate of $219.</font></blockquote><br><br>
Keynote Information:<br>
(See
<a href="http://www.itk.org/Wiki/LarryRosenTalk#Talk:_Open_Source_Licensing" eudora="autourl">
http://www.itk.org/Wiki/LarryRosenTalk#Talk:_Open_Source_Licensing</a>
and http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Conference_2005 for more
information).<br><br>
<h2><b>Open Source Licensing </b></h2>This keynote session (Thursday Oct.
13 from 1:00-3:00pm) will be divided into two major parts. First, Mr.
Rosen will deliver a prepared talk approximately one hour in length.
Second, the session will be opened to questions from the audience.
<br><br>
Mr. Rosen's talk will address the following topics: <br><br>
What Is Open Source Software? <br>
Five Key Principles <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Use open
source for any purpose <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Make and
distribute copies <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Create and
distribute derivative works <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Access and
use the source code <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Combine
open source and other software <br>
Intellectual Property <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Patents
<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Trademarks
<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Copyrights
<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>The Chain
of Title <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Collective
and Derivative Works <br>
Types of Licenses and Related Issues <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Academic
Licenses (e.g., BSD) <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Reciprocal
Licenses (e.g., GPL, LGPL) <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Other
Licenses <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>The
Mozilla Public License (MPL) <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>IBM's
Common Public License (CPL) <br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>The Apache
License <br>
Choosing an Open Source License <br>
What the Future May Bring <br><br>
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<h2><b>Lawrence Rosen </b></h2><b>Lawrence Rosen</b> is both an attorney
and a computer specialist. He is founding partner of Rosenlaw &
Einschlag
<a href="http://www.rosenlaw.com/">http://www.rosenlaw.com/</a>, a
technology law firm with offices in Los Altos Hills and Ukiah,
California, that specializes in intellectual property protection,
licensing and business transactions for technology companies. <br><br>
In addition to this law practice, Larry also served as general counsel
and secretary of the non-profit Open Source Initiative (OSI). OSI
promotes the Open Source Definition for the good of the community,
reviews and approves major open source licenses, and manages the
"OSI Certified" certification mark for open source software.
His book, <i>Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual
Property Law</i>
(<a href="http://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm">
http://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm</a>), was published by Prentice Hall
in 2004. <br><br>
Larry currently serves as an advisor to Black Duck Software, and is on
the advisory board of SpikeSource, Inc. Among his clients are a number of
major open source software companies and projects around the world.
<br><br>
Before he became an attorney, Larry was a computer technologist. He
managed computer activities and taught computer programming and data base
design at Stanford University, later going into industry where he
coordinated the design, development, manufacturing and marketing of data
communications products. In addition to helping bring a number of
technology companies to profitability, Larry also served for many years
as member of the board of directors and chairman of Silicon Valley Credit
Union, and has helped form and served on the boards of several non-profit
charitable and mutual benefit organizations. He received his bachelor's
degree from Dartmouth College, pursued a master of computer science
degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and received
his law degree from Santa Clara University. <br><br>
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