EDUCAUSE Live! December 18, 2006 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

Closed Source/Open Source: An Update on Software Licensing 101

Special Guest

Karen Copenhaver
Partner
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

Karen F. Copenhaver is a partner in the Business and Technology Group at Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP. Her practice focuses on technology transfer and licensing of intellectual property, particularly in the areas of software licensing and open source business models. Copenhaver also serves as an advisor to Black Duck Software, Inc., where she helped establish automated methods of software compliance management as an industry best practice. She began her legal career in 1979 at IBM Corporation and has worked at several other law firms. Copenhaver also has served as an adjunct professor in computer law at Suffolk Law School, has lectured at Suffolk’s Advanced Legal Series conferences, and has served as chair for the Practicing Law Institute’s annual conference. She is a frequent speaker on issues relating to technology licensing and open source software and has presented on these topics at more than 20 national and international events in the past year.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Karen Copenhaver, and the topic will be "Closed Source/Open Source: An Update on Software Licensing 101."

Going back to the beginning and revisiting how current practices developed over time can help us understand where we are now, and where we are headed. When viewed in this light, open source licenses and business models stop looking like aberrations and start looking like part of the natural progression of an industry.

Related EDUCAUSE Resources

• Licensing
• OSS
• Open Source
• Archives of past EDUCAUSE Live! seminars

Additional Resources

• The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source, by Bruce Perens