Law & Life: Silicon Valley

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Friday, August 24, 2007

Open Source Legal Webinar: An Open Source Overview after the Release of General Public License Version 3

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I recently did a webinar for Gathering 2.0 on open source legal issues with a particular emphasis on GPLv3. Gathering 2.0 is an interesting ...
Wednesday, August 22, 2007

New Open Source Legal Decision: Jacobsen & Katzer and How Model Train Software Will Have an Important Effect on Open Source Licensing

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One of the frustrations of lawyers serving the open source industry is that they have few cases which interpret open source licenses. As Ebe...
Thursday, July 26, 2007

New Open Source License: Common Public Attribution License

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I am proud to announce that the Socialtext Common Public Attribution License was approved by the OSI board on Wednesday morning. It will be ...

Open Source: Japan

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If I ever had any doubts about the international interest in Open Source, they were laid to rest last week. I was visiting clients in Tokyo ...
Sunday, July 8, 2007

Adoption of General Public License Version 3: Keeping Track

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One of the major questions in the open source community is whether projects will adopt the General Public License Version 3. Although I have...
Monday, July 2, 2007

General Public License Version 3: A Legal View

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The final version of the General Public License Version 3 (“GPLv3) published on June 29th is a significant improvement over General Public L...
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Mark Radcliffe
I earned a B.S. in Chemistry magna cum laude from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. I have been practicing law in Silicon Valley for over 25 years and am now a senior partner at DLA Piper. DLA Piper is a new global law firm formed in 2005 from the merger of three law firms. The firm now has 3600 lawyers in 25 countries and 65 cities. My practice is a mix of corporate securities and intellectual property. I work with many startups as well as large global companies. I have had the opportunity to work with companies in many industries, ranging from semiconductor to digital media to open source. I am the General Counsel, pro bono, of the Open Source Initiative and I ran the "Users" committee reviewing the GPLv3 draft.
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