LF Legal Summit agenda announced

The Linux Foundation Spring 2008 Legal Summit

*April 23, 2008
Motorola Customer Briefing Center
Schaumburg, IL*

The Linux Foundation Legal Summit, conducted by LF In-House Member Counsel,
for In-House Counsel, will focus on the issues that in-house counsel are now
routinely asked to address about the use of open source software within the
enterprise or within a commercial offering.

*Please note that this event is only open to in-house counsel.  There is
still time to register - click here to apply:
https://www.linux-foundation.org/events/civicrm/event/reg...

*April 23, 2008 - Agenda*
 8:00am-9:00am *Continental Breakfast and Networking*  9:00am-9:05am *Role
of Linux Foundation Member Counsel Group and Objectives for Legal Summit*
9:05am-10:15am *Open Source Development and Licensing Terminology: The Law
and the Lore*
A glossary of frequently used terms and their history  10:15am-10:30am  *Coffee
Break and Networking*  10:30am-12:00pm *Open Source Projects*
? How do they operate? Why do people contribute to them? What does it really
mean to build a community and why is that important?
? How projects keep track of the re-use of code? How do you determine what
the appropriate license is for a project?
? Sources of information regarding popular projects.
? Contributions to open source projects by employees as employees, and by
moonlighting employees.
? Starting an open source project  12:00pm-1:30pm *Lunch and Speaker: Keith
Bergelt, CEO, Open Inventions Network*

Patent Support for the Open Source Ecosystem - OIN; Peer to Patent; OSAPA;
Patent Commons  1:30pm-2:15pm *Open Source Policies and Compliance Programs*
What did in-house counsel learn as they put their open source policies in
place? What are companies actually doing to manage compliance with open
source licenses? What is the role of an Open Source Compliance Officer?
2:15pm-3:30pm *Discussion Groups*
? Letting Go - Releasing code under an open source license
? Living in a Linux World - loadable kernel modules, embedded applications,
etc.
? Remediation - Recommendations on how to handle the resolution of a
compliance problem.  3:30pm-4:00pm *Coffee Break and Networking*
4:00pm-4:30pm *Litigation Update*  4:30pm-5:00pm *Predictions - What do the
Linux Foundation Member Counsel see ahead?*
If you have questions on attending, please contact Angela Brown at angela
(at) linux-foundation.org.

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