[TriLUG] June 2007 TriLUG Meeting - Sapna Kumar on GPLv3

Matt Frye mattfrye at gmail.com
Sun Jun 3 17:47:02 EDT 2007


The June 2007 meeting of the Triangle Linux Users Group will be held
at 7pm, June 14, at Red Hat on the Centennial Campus of North Carolina
State University.  Directions available at
http://www.redhat.com/about/contact/ww/americas/raleigh.html .

Our speaker will be Sapna Kumar, Faculty Fellow at Duke University Law
School and the topic will be the GNU General Public License version 3.
 Sapna will discuss changes in GPL v.3 and what they mean for hackers.
 She'll discuss the infighting that has been going on inside the open
source community and how v.3 deals with the growing threat of software
patents.

Sapna Kumar is a faculty fellow at Duke University Law School.  Her
areas of interest include open source software, patent reform in
biotechnology, and federal agency law.  Prior to coming to Duke, she
was in private practice, focusing on patent litigation and software
licensing.

This meeting is sponsored by Resolvit Resources: Consulting Services
for Information Technology, Business Process Improvement, Data
Management, and Staff Augmentation.  www.resolvitresources.com

As always, this meeting is free and open to the public.  Pizza and
beverages are provided free of charge.



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