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[International Free and Open Source Software Law Review:] Call for papers
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| The International Free and Open Source
| Software Law Review (IFOSS L. Rev. or
| IFOSSLR) is a collaborative legal
| publication aiming to increase knowledge
| and understanding among lawyers about Free
| and Open Source Software issues. It is
| the first publication to focus
| specifically on this field, and its
| independent Editorial Committee is seeking
| submissions from qualified authors in a
| variety of research areas.
|
| The topics covered by the publication
| include copyright, licence implementation,
| licence interpretation, patents applicable
| to software and business methods,
| standards applicable to software, case
| law, statutory changes, license
| enforcement, competition law applicable to
| software, economics analysis, business
| models and due diligence.
|
| Issue 3 of IFOSS L. Rev. will be released
| on June 8th 2010. To be considered for
| inclusion in this issue articles must be
| submitted by April 1st.
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http://www.ifosslr.org/ifosslr/announcement/view/5
NDAs and FOSS
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| I recently had to sign a "Non-Disclosure
| Agreement" (NDA) for the first time in a
| long while, and I thought I would write
| about how an NDA might or might not fit in
| with Free and Open Source Software.
|
| One of the main ideas of FOSS is to share
| information, and we encourage both
| programmers and vendors to share as much
| information as possible.
|
| Sometimes a vendor shares some information
| with developers, and the vendor's words
| "we think we are going to do this" becomes
| misconstrued as "we are going to do this".
| Then people get upset when (perhaps a year
| later) the "promise" never materializes.
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/NDAs-and-FOSS
Recent:
Release of IFOSSLR
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| Today marks the (soft) launch of a new journal dedicated to Free and Open
| Source Software legal issues (a âhardâ launch with printed copies is
| happening in London on Wednesday). The International Free and Open Source
| Software Law Review is an initiative of the freedom taskforce run by FSF
| Europe. I am on the editorial panel and am also happy to take credit for
| initially floating the idea of having a journal. I am also happy to praise
| the enormous effort that has gone into putting the law review together by the
| other members of the editorial committee and to the sponsors for supporting
| it.
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http://brendanscott.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/release-of-ifosslr/
Free/Open Source Law journal launched
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| A new legal journal has been launched that deals specifically with issues
| around free and open source software. The "International Free and Open Source
| Software Law Review" (IFOSSLR) is a bi-annual peer reviewed publication. The
| editorial committee is made up of members of the European Legal Network, a
| group of legal experts founded by the Free Software Foundation Europe in
| 2007.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/Free-Open-Source-Law-journal-launched--/news/113759
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