Sponsors

  • Microsoft
  • Nebula
  • Google
  • SugarCRM
  • Facebook
  • HP
  • Intel
  • Rackspace Hosting
  • WSO2
  • Alfresco
  • BlackBerry
  • CUBRID
  • Dell
  • eBay
  • Heroku
  • InfiniteGraph
  • JBoss
  • LeaseWeb
  • Liferay
  • Media Temple, Inc.
  • OpenShift
  • Oracle
  • Percona
  • Puppet Labs
  • Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
  • Rentrak
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • SoftLayer Technologies, Inc.
  • SourceGear
  • Urban Airship
  • Vertica
  • VMware
  • (mt) Media Temple, Inc.

Sponsorship Opportunities

For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at the convention, contact Sharon Cordesse at scordesse@oreilly.com

Download the OSCON Sponsor/Exhibitor Prospectus

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Aaron Williamson
Counsel, Software Freedom Law Center

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Aaron is an attorney with the Software Freedom Law Center, where he advises free software projects and developers. At SFLC, Aaron has counseled developers on license compatibility, patent liability, forming nonprofits, clean-room development, and many other issues. He also has a B.S. in computer science and writes code when he’s not lawyering.

Sessions

2:30pm Thursday, 07/28/2011
Legal Basics for Developers
Business
 Location: E146
Tags: legal, copyright, trademark, patent, corporate
Aaron Williamson (Software Freedom Law Center), Karen Sandler (GNOME Foundation)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 6 ratings)
A discussion of fundamental legal concepts for free/open source software developers, focusing on the topics that projects most commonly face: copyrights, trademarks, patents, and incorporation. Read more.