\chapter*{The GPL and Legal Aspects of Free Software Development}

\textit{Columbia Law School, New York, NY, 28 September 2005}

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09:00 - 09:25 & Registration / Check-in / Continental Breakfast\\

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09:25 - 09:30 & Welcome\\

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09:30 - 10:30 & The Basics of How Software is Constructed\\

& \textit{David Turner}\\

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10:30 - 11:15 & The Free Software Ecosystem\\

& \textit{David Turner}\\

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11:15 - 11:30 & Break\\

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11:30 - 12:15 & How Copyright Law Applies to Software\\

& \textit{Daniel Ravicher}\\

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12:15 - 13:30 & Lunch with Lecture, ``GPL, Version 3''\\

& \textit{Prof. Eben Moglen}\\

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13:30 - 15:30 & How the GPL Works from a Distributor Perspective\\

& \textit{Daniel Ravicher}\\

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15:30 - 15:45 & Break\\

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15:45 - 17:15 & GPL Compliance\\

& \textit{Daniel Ravicher}\\

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17:15 - 18:00 & Future Considerations\\

& \textit{Daniel Ravicher}\\

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\chapter*{About the Speakers}

\section*{Eben Moglen}

Eben Moglen is Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia

University Law School and General Counsel of the Free Software

Foundation. Professor Moglen earned his PhD in History and law degree

at Yale University during what he sometimes calls his "long, dark

period" in New Haven. After law school he clerked for Judge Edward

Weinfeld of the United States District Court in New York City and to

Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He has

taught at Columbia Law School -- and has held visiting appointments at

Harvard University, Tel-Aviv University and the University of Virginia

-- since 1987. In 2003 he was given the Electronic Frontier

Foundation's Pioneer Award for efforts on behalf of freedom in the

electronic society.

\section*{Daniel Ravicher}

Dan Ravicher is a registered patent attorney with extensive experience

litigating, licensing, prosecuting, and otherwise counseling clients

with respect to patents. Prior to founding PUBPAT, Mr. Ravicher was

associated with the patent law practice groups of Skadden, Arps,

Slate, Meagher \& Flom LLP, Brobeck, Phleger \& Harrison, LLP, and

Patterson, Belknap, Webb \& Tyler, LLP, all in New York, and served the

Honorable Randall R. Rader, Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of

Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.  Mr. Ravicher has

published several legal articles and given numerous presentations

regarding patent law.  Mr. Ravicher received his law degree from the

University of Virginia School of Law, where he was the Class of 2000

Franklin O'Blechman Scholar, a Mortimer Caplin Public Service Award

recipient and Editor of the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology,

and his bachelors degree in materials science magna cum laude with

University Honors from the University of South Florida.

\section*{David Turner}

David Turner has been a GNU GPL Compliance Engineer for the Free

Software Foundation for three and a half years.  Mr. Turner consults

with companies and individuals about free software licensing in

general, focusing on the FSF's licenses.  Mr. Turner has given

presentations on the GPL around the world.  In addition, Mr. Turner

has written software to help manage copyright assignments and

determine copyright ownership. He has experience with several

languages including C, Python, Perl and Java.  Mr. Turner is presently

working on the next version of the GNU GPL.