Media Contact: Free Software Foundation
Ravi Khanna <[email protected]>
Phone:+1-617-542-5942
In the last few months, the Santa Cruz Organization Group (SCO) has been sowing confusion and misinformation regarding the validity of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as part of their strategy to extort money from users of the kernel named Linux, which is licensed under FSF's GPL. These seminars and discussions will present the facts about the license from FSF, its creators, who authored the license in 1989. Today, the GNU GPL is the most popular and widely used Free Software copyright license.
The seminars will provide detailed study and analysis of the GPL, review GPL enforcement cases handled by FSF's GPL Compliance Laboratory, and consider legal ethics in Free Software Licensing. Daniel Ravicher, Senior Counsel to FSF, and Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director of FSF, will lead the seminars.
The first seminar, "Detailed Study and Analysis of GPL and LGPL", held on January 20, 2004, will give a section-by-section explanation of the GPL, and will educate lawyers, software developers, managers and business people on how to use the GPL (and GPL'd software) successfully in new Free Software businesses and in existing, successful enterprises.
The second seminar, "GPL Compliance Case Studies and Legal Ethics in Free Software Licensing" held on January 21, 2004, will present the details of a few different GPL compliance cases handled by FSF's GPL Compliance
