[Insight-developers] ITK Developer's Conference October 13/14

[Will Schroeder]

This email includes instructions for hotel reservations and a keynote 
talk summary and bio for the keynote speaker.
Will
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Hotel Reservations:
>The hotel is Holiday Inn Select.  The attendees may now call and 
>make their hotel reservations for the ITK Meeting.  When they call 
>they should ask for Cheryl Hartwell, the Government Sales 
>Manager.  The phone number is 301-652-2000.  Please remind the 
>attendees the rooms will only be held at the government rate of $166 
>plus tax through Thursday, October 6, 2005.  Calling after October 
>6, the hotel cannot guarantee that they will even have rooms 
>available and will return to the regular rate of $219.


Keynote Information:
(See 
http://www.itk.org/Wiki/LarryRosenTalk#Talk:_Open_Source_Licensing 
and http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Conference_2005 for more information).


Open Source Licensing

This keynote session (Thursday Oct. 13 from 1:00-3:00pm) will be 
divided into two major parts. First, Mr. Rosen will deliver a 
prepared talk approximately one hour in length. Second, the session 
will be opened to questions from the audience.

Mr. Rosen's talk will address the following topics:

What Is Open Source Software?
Five Key Principles
         Use open source for any purpose
         Make and distribute copies
         Create and distribute derivative works
         Access and use the source code
         Combine open source and other software
Intellectual Property
         Patents
         Trademarks
         Copyrights
         The Chain of Title
         Collective and Derivative Works
Types of Licenses and Related Issues
         Academic Licenses (e.g., BSD)
         Reciprocal Licenses (e.g., GPL, LGPL)
         Other Licenses
         The Mozilla Public License (MPL)
         IBM's Common Public License (CPL)
         The Apache License
Choosing an Open Source License
What the Future May Bring



Lawrence Rosen

Lawrence Rosen is both an attorney and a computer specialist. He is 
founding partner of Rosenlaw & Einschlag 
<http://www.rosenlaw.com/>http://www.rosenlaw.com/, a technology law 
firm with offices in Los Altos Hills and Ukiah, California, that 
specializes in intellectual property protection, licensing and 
business transactions for technology companies.

In addition to this law practice, Larry also served as general 
counsel and secretary of the non-profit Open Source Initiative (OSI). 
OSI promotes the Open Source Definition for the good of the 
community, reviews and approves major open source licenses, and 
manages the "OSI Certified" certification mark for open source 
software. His book, Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and 
Intellectual Property Law 
(<http://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm>http://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm), 
was published by Prentice Hall in 2004.

Larry currently serves as an advisor to Black Duck Software, and is 
on the advisory board of SpikeSource, Inc. Among his clients are a 
number of major open source software companies and projects around the world.

Before he became an attorney, Larry was a computer technologist. He 
managed computer activities and taught computer programming and data 
base design at Stanford University, later going into industry where 
he coordinated the design, development, manufacturing and marketing 
of data communications products. In addition to helping bring a 
number of technology companies to profitability, Larry also served 
for many years as member of the board of directors and chairman of 
Silicon Valley Credit Union, and has helped form and served on the 
boards of several non-profit charitable and mutual benefit 
organizations. He received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth 
College, pursued a master of computer science degree at the 
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and received his law 
degree from Santa Clara University.

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