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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