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Moglen plans 'general counsel's office for the entire movement' (NewsForge)

[Posted February 17, 2005 by cook]

NewsForge looks at Eben Moglen's plans for the Software Freedom Law Center. " Yet behind the facts of the news release is a larger story. In helping to create the organization, Center director Eben Moglen, the framer of the GNU General Public License, is not just looking for a way to defend the FOSS communities against legal threats. Yet he is also looking beyond this potential need. By 2010, he hopes to see the SFLC become the center of a web of associations that will link FOSS projects, tech-savvy lawyers, and corporations, to everyone's mutual benefit."

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Moglen didn't write the GPL

Posted Feb 18, 2005 19:43 UTC (Fri) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

AFAIK Moglen had no input into GPL v1 or v2. Stallman wrote both with legal assistance from anonymous lawyer.

Moglen did work on the LGPL, and the GFDL, and is now working on GPLv3.

Moglen didn't write the GPL

Posted Feb 19, 2005 4:58 UTC (Sat) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

I am almost certain that the anonymous lawyer was Eben Moglen.