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Open Source Licensing made easy for Italian Public Administrations

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Roberto Galoppini
on September 10, 2010
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Sep ’10
27
2:30 pm

Open source licensing compliance will be at the center of the next conference of the “Focus Group Open Source” series, an initiative  sponsored by IBM Italy to promote open source among Italian public administrations. (disclosure: IBM Italy is a client).

Marco Ciurcina, lawyer and Vice-President of the Italian association devoted to the promotion of free software (Assoli), will introduce the legal aspects of free software and open source licensing. Sebastiano Lomuscio, Consip, will give a speech around open source licenses and public administrations, while Carlo Vaccari will close the round-table talking about how ISTAT found its way to the EUPL.

A question and answer session and a public discussion will follow the round table.

Open Source Books: “Intellectual Property and Open Source”, by Van Lindberg

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Roberto Galoppini
on March 8, 2009
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Whil reviewing books for the Jolt Awards, I have been reading the “Intellectual Property and Open Source” book, published by O’Reilly and authored by Van Lindberg. A book meant to be a developer’s documentation for the legal system, potentially able to serve different audiences, IT managers included.

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Roberto has over 20 years experience in the computer industry, and has spent the last 10 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he also served on some advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. He works at SourceForge, and opinions expressed here don't necessarily represent employer's positions, strategies, or opinion.