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Presentation on OSS licenses by Maurits Westerik (Presenting at the BioAssist programmers meeting on [[Agenda BioAssist Programmers Meeting 2010/02/19|19 February, 2010]]). | Presentation on OSS licenses by Maurits Westerik (Presenting at the BioAssist programmers meeting on [[Agenda BioAssist Programmers Meeting 2010/02/19|19 February, 2010]]). | ||
− | Maurits is a member of the Intellectual Property and Information Technology Groups of Bird & Bird in The Netherlands. He specialises in intellectual property, especially in technology-related IP and life sciences-related patent cases. Maurits studied law at the University of Leiden and is a graduate of the international programme of the Institute for Political Sciences (SciencePo) in Paris. He has been an IP/IT lawyer in Amsterdam since 2004, before joining Bird & Bird in 2007. Maurits is an active speaker on IP strategy and also teaches IP law as guest lecturer at the Universities of Amsterdam, Leiden and Delft. | + | [http://www.twobirds.com/English/LAWYERS/Pages/Maurits_Westerik_1.aspx Maurits] is a member of the Intellectual Property and Information Technology Groups of Bird & Bird in The Netherlands. He specialises in intellectual property, especially in technology-related IP and life sciences-related patent cases. Maurits studied law at the University of Leiden and is a graduate of the international programme of the Institute for Political Sciences (SciencePo) in Paris. He has been an IP/IT lawyer in Amsterdam since 2004, before joining Bird & Bird in 2007. Maurits is an active speaker on IP strategy and also teaches IP law as guest lecturer at the Universities of Amsterdam, Leiden and Delft. |
As a member of Bird & Bird’s Open Source Knowledge Group, Maurits has translated the popular open source GPLv3 software licence into Dutch. The translation is available on the GNU site. | As a member of Bird & Bird’s Open Source Knowledge Group, Maurits has translated the popular open source GPLv3 software licence into Dutch. The translation is available on the GNU site. |
Revision as of 09:37, 25 January 2010
Presentation on OSS licenses by Maurits Westerik (Presenting at the BioAssist programmers meeting on 19 February, 2010).
Maurits is a member of the Intellectual Property and Information Technology Groups of Bird & Bird in The Netherlands. He specialises in intellectual property, especially in technology-related IP and life sciences-related patent cases. Maurits studied law at the University of Leiden and is a graduate of the international programme of the Institute for Political Sciences (SciencePo) in Paris. He has been an IP/IT lawyer in Amsterdam since 2004, before joining Bird & Bird in 2007. Maurits is an active speaker on IP strategy and also teaches IP law as guest lecturer at the Universities of Amsterdam, Leiden and Delft.
As a member of Bird & Bird’s Open Source Knowledge Group, Maurits has translated the popular open source GPLv3 software licence into Dutch. The translation is available on the GNU site.
Requested Topics for this talk:
- Role of copyright in licensing
- What is the difference between copyright/auteursrecht/intellectual property?
- What about all this code people gave to me over the years that has no copyright statement or license?
- Who is the 'owner' of my work ? Me, the company I work for, or the financing party ?
- Dual licensing
- License compatibility
Additional questions to be addressed:
- Can I use open-source platforms to develop commercial software? (like Eclipse, MySQL, ...) (added by Dmitry Katsubo)
- Can I re-use the parts of the source code (e.g. method, algorithm implementation) covered by LGPL licence in GPL project or in commercial project? (added by Dmitry Katsubo)
- Can I use optional dependency to GPL library in commercial project? [1] (added by Dmitry Katsubo)
Please, prove/disapprove the statements with references to corresponding license (or laws) chapters.
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