NewsForge: Moglen Plans "General Counsel's Office for the Entire Movement"

"Earlier this month, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) announced its existence. General coverage of the event stressed the Center's board of directors--virtually a Who's Who of the legal experts on free and open source software (FOSS)--its initial funding, and the increasing legal threats that loom behind its creation. Yet behind the facts of the news release is a larger story.

"In helping to create the organization, Center director Eben Moglen, the framer of the GNU General Public License, is not just looking for a way to defend the FOSS communities against legal threats. Yet he is also looking beyond this potential need. By 2010, he hopes to see the SFLC become the center of a web of associations that will link FOSS projects, tech-savvy lawyers, and corporations, to everyone's mutual benefit..."

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