Re: [Polytopes-general] Software Copyrights, Patents, and Free Software

[Evan K. <ko...@cs...>]

Sorry.  Wrong list.

e.

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Evan Korth wrote:

> Dewar's talk is in 11 days.  Are there any updates on our promotion efforts?
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> e.
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> Here is the abstract:
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> This talk will give some general background on copyrights and patents 
> (including looking at the original constitutional basis for these, and we 
> will look at what Thomas Jefferson had to say at the time, and what Ayn Rand 
> wrote more recently!) We will look at how these "rights" (quotations very 
> much intended) relate to software which has unique characteristics not found 
> in other technologies. Finally we will look at Free Software and Open Source 
> (what these terms mean, and how they relate to copyrights and patents).
>
> No prior knowledge of either copyright/patent law or technical computer 
> knowledge is required other than a basic knowledge of what computer 
> programming is about (e.g. the relation of source and object code). In fact a 
> lot of what you think you know about copyrights etc is probably wrong anyway 
> :-). Certainly if you listened to Bill Gates definition of Open Source the 
> other day you will not have been enlightened.
>
> This talk is being sponosored by NYU's ACM (Association for Computing 
> Machinery) and CaNYU (Computer Advocacy at NYU) but is suitablle for a wide 
> audience, computers at the University (which is a pretty big group these 
> days!)
>
> Robert Dewar is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the Courant 
> Institute. He has published numerous technical articles in the field, and is 
> author of a book on Microprocessor Architectures. He is currently President 
> and CEO of AdaCore Technologies, a company that provides software used in 
> building large critical projects in such areas as air traffic control, 
> commercial and military avoionics, and medical instrumentation. AdaCore uses 
> a commercial Free Software / Open Source approach.  He has served as an 
> expert witness in several important patent and copyright cases in Federal 
> Courts.
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