[Commons-Law] Software Freedom Law Center..

[Hasit seth]

Hi,

   I guess most of you might now about this, but may be newbies can use it.

http://www.softwarefreedom.org/

Hasit

They describe themselves as below:
We provide legal representation and other law-related services to
protect and advance Free and Open Source Software.

Free and Open Source Software ("FOSS") is maturing at a rapid pace.
The FOSS production ecosystem, once dominated by a few small
not-for-profit entities and individual contributors, now includes a
global array of individuals, not-for-profit entities, and commercial
developers and redistributors. In this mixed-model organizational
setting, all FOSS developers require an environment in which liability
and other legal issues do not impede their important public service
work. The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) provides legal
representation and other law-related services to protect and advance
FOSS

Usual names running it are:
Eben Moglen, Chairman
Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law School
and General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation

Diane M. Peters, Director
General Counsel of Open Source Development Labs ("OSDL"), the central
body dedicated to accelerating the use of Linux for enterprise
computing.

Lawrence Lessig, Director
Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's
Center for Internet and Society

Daniel J. Weitzner, Director
Director of the World Wide Web Consortium's ("W3C") Technology and
Society activities where he is responsible for development of
technology standards that enable the web to address social, legal, and
public policy concerns such as privacy, free speech, security,
protection of minors, authentication, intellectual property and
identification.