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New Legal Center for Open Source Projects

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the fighting-the-good-fight dept.

NW writes "According to a News.com story well known OSS lawyers Lawrence Lessig and Eben Moglen are launching a new "Software Freedom Legal Center" to assist open source developers with legal issues for free." You can view the website at Softwarefreedom.org.

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  1. Great News by Broadcatch · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Eben's a great guy is certainly a David against many Goliaths. Glad to hear about the Software Freedom Law Center! He has his work cut out for him in updating the GPL as there are many IP issues that will need to get worked out with the BigCos that regularly use and/or distribute GPL'd software. Glad to see he's getting some help from people like Weitzner and Lessig (don't know Diane Peters, but I'm sure she's good).

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    The antidote for misuse of freedom of speech is more freedom of speech.
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