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[Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu>]

Please forward as appropriate. This is me talking about Open and Free for the 
Office of Technology Development's Seminar series on Nov. 9.

Post questions etc at http://ibiblio.org/pjones/wordpress/?p=1626 where you can 
also find this article/entry:

As part of the <a href="http://research.unc.edu/otd/";>Office of Technology 
Development</a>'s <a href="http://research.unc.edu/otd/seminar/";>Carolina 
Innovations Seminars</a>, I'll be speaking on <strong>"Open Source Licensing: 
The Basics, The Benefits, The Buzz"</strong> on November 9 from 5:15 to 6:15 in 
014 Sitterson Hall.

In the spirit of Openness, please dear readers and potential attendees, use the 
comments here to let me know any specific questions or areas that you'd like to 
see covered. I don't want to talk endlessly on the differences between GPL 2 
and 3, for example, unless someone cares, but then if someone does I want to be 
sure to be prepared and to do a good job.

Some helpful source material (pun intended) can be found at these links:
<a href="http://www.fsf.org/";>Free Software Foundation</a>
<a href="http://opensource.org/";>Open Source Initiative</a>
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/";>GNU Project </a>
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html";>GNU Philosophy including 
the 4 Software Freedoms </a>
<a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/";>Software Freedom Law Center</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software";>Wikipedia on Free 
Software</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source";>Wikipedia on Open Source 
Software</a>

For non-software, see <a href="http://creativecommons.org";>Creative 
Commons</a>, <a href="http://icommons.org";>iCommons (international Creative 
Commons movement)</a> , and the <a href="http://sciencecommons.org/";>Science 
Commons Project</a>.

This is another experiment in opening the conversation like the one I just did 
<a href="http://www.seedwiki.com/wiki/pauljones/pauljones";>down at Berry 
College where using the wiki really worked well</a>. This time a blog post 
instead.

So post at http://ibiblio.org/pjones/wordpress/?p=1626

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