Last month David A. Wheeler hosted a can’t miss webinar for those of you in the defense industry that have questions regarding the GPL and how that impacts your plans to either use or create open source software. I attended the webinar and David’s analysis was quite enlightening.

• “DoD and OSS” - OpenDocument
• “DoD and OSS” - PowerPoint
• “DoD and OSS” - PDF
• A audiovisual presentation is available via Google
• The Q&A.

There were enough questions afterwards that David wrote up a slew of questions covering a dozen different categories. Read the Q&A… do not skip it.

If you would like to hear a complimentary webinar that is focused on commercial usage of open source within embedded design projects you should take some time to listen to noted legal expert Jason Wacha’s presentation:

• GPL and Open Source Licensing Review: Join MontaVista Software and distinguished open source licensing authority Jason Wacha for a review of issues surrounding open source licensing. Starting from base principles of differences between laws, licenses, and commercial agreements, Mr. Wacha moves on to issues surrounding the use of a General Public License (GPL) and how it affects Linux and other open source software.

You’ll need to register but I think it is worth the trouble. I’ve listened to Jason’s GPL talks at least a dozen times and I still come away learning something new each time.

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This entry was posted on Monday, May 12th, 2008 at 5:05 pm and is filed under GPL.