Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Sep 2007 13:32 UTC, submitted by Leo Zera
The Linux Foundation, custodians of the Linux trademark, have announced two summits to deal with legal issues surrounding Linux and open-source software. Attendees will focus on building a legal defense structure for Linux and policies designed to support intellectual property rights within open development.
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2006-01-02
I wish there were less petty lawyering in the OSS world. The GPL is not particularly clever and Kernel devs do not make good lawyers. I say, let the few big-wig lawyers like Eben Moglen take care of that issue and let the engineers deal with things that are actually important to users. I'm sure recruiting law professors to deal with these issues will be far more productive and rational that putting people like Linus and Miguel through all these tribulations.