Copyleft Business Models: Why it’s Good Not to Be Your Competitor’s Free Lunch
05/22/2007, 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Speaker:
Eben Moglen, Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center and Professor, Columbia University Law School.

Now that the GPL wars are over, and we have two good GPLs to choose from, it is time to re-ask some fundamental questions about business models and software licenses. In this talk, I explain why smaller software-focused businesses will soon be deserting Apache- and BSD-style permissive licenses for GPL [2 3] and their successors.

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