[Linux-aus] GPLv3 and Australia - Centre seminar in November

[Pia Waugh <greebo@pipka.org>]

Hi all,

this event will likely be of interest to a few of you :) The Cyberlaw Centre
are doing a lot of work around FOSS licensing and other legal stuff
concerning our community, so it should be quite an interesting day.

Who knows, maybe we can get RMS or Eben out here :)

I don't know if they are charging anything, but write to them and let them
know what you'd like to see so we can make sure it is useful to the
FOSS community.

Cheers,
Pia

----- Forwarded message from Graham Greenleaf <graham@austlii.edu.au> -----

Dear all,

The Centre is proposing to host a seminar on 30 November entitled "General
Public License version 3 (GPL v3) and Australia" - see
http://www.cyberlawcentre.org/2006/gpl/ for brief background.

We hope that submissions from the project into the GPL revision process will
result. One particular angle I think we should examine is whether the
revised licence will be sufficiently 'internationalised' to be likely to be
upheld by courts in countries such as Australia. Or will it be an American
'one size fits all'?  Comments very welcome.

Speakers, sponsors etc are now being organised. We would be particularly
interested to know which of our investigators would like speak (or just to
attend and comment), and which of our industry partners would like to have
an active involvement.  Suggestions for speakers or other potential sponsors
are also very welcome.

Abi  <abi@austlii.edu.au>  is taking the running on coordinating this, so
feel free to contact her in the first place, or just reply back to this list
for any general discussion.


Cheers,

Graham

PS  http://gplv3.fsf.org/  gives background on the revision process
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Cheers,
Pia

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