Published at LXer:
The Open Source Business Conference, held at San Francisco's Palace Hotel, draws a lot of lawyers, from both corporate legal departments and law firms. Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credit is available. Jeff Norman, a partner at the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis, delivered a talk on "Shims and Shams: Firewalling Proprietary Code in a Copyleft Context." This talk gives some insights into the current thinking on how difficult it can be to create a combined software product using both copyleft and proprietary code.
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