| Speakers | Title | Abstract | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philippe Laurent CRID / MVVP | FOSS issues in technology transfers from the University to the Industry. | FOSS has always been particularly welcome in Universities. Its spirit corresponds generally with the academic state of mind, and royalty-free technologies are particularly appreciated where... | |
| Malcolm Bain id law partners | Legal issues in promoting FOSS in R+D projects – Policy, Organisation and Management | Creating and using FLOSS in R+D projects raises several legal issues, which need to be managed as soon as possible – preferably during the project planning stage. Challenges in the areas... | |
| Orsi Alessandro Hewlett-Packard | Licensing Review in R+D Projects | FOSS packages are becoming ever more present in R&D projects carried out a variety of entities, including large corporations. I will focus on how legal risks associated with the use of FOSS... | |
| Romain Berrendoner Adacore | Warranties used as a mean to promote commercial FOSS | From a business standpoint, this paper describes the point of view on the question of warranties of a FOSS editor doing business in a risk-averse market segment. It is based on 15-years... | |
| Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz UNISYS | Contracting with free software communities | Industry and large Agencies needs “agile” programming resources, to reinforce their own development staff and take advantage of innovative approaches produced by “fresh minds... | |
| Armijn Hemel Tjaldur Software Governance Solutions | GPL license compliance | The enormous success of Linux in the consumer electronics industry has unfortunately led to a dramatic increase in license violations in devices. In this talk we will shortly look at the... | |
| Benedicte Pascal Intel | Installation Information requirements in the GPLv3 and LGPLv3 | One of the major changes introduced in the GPLv3 and LGPLv3 is the clause preventing “tivoisation”. Richard Stallman defines Tivoisation as “the practice of designing hardware... | |
| Nathalie Foutel ENAC | Free Open Source Software and Dual-Use: Loophole or Dissent? | The Free Open Source Software (FOSS) seem far from the military field but in some cases, some technologies normally used for civilian purposes may have military applications. These products and... | |
| Guillaume Rousseau Antelink | Managing FOSS during development: preventive and curative approaches | Today, most software development teams use free and open source software (FOSS) components, because it increases the speed and the quality of the development. Many open source components are the de... | |
| Martin Michlmayr FOSSBazaar | Sharing Open Source License and Copyright Data with SPDX | Organizations across the globe are creating and distributing products that include open source software. To ensure compliance with the open source licenses, each company needs to evaluate exactly... | |
| Peter Vescuso Black Duck | License selection and management | With nearly 2,000 free and open source software (FLOSS) licenses, software license proliferation– can be a major headache for software development organizations trying to speed development... | |
| Hervé Guyomard Black Duck | Legal Issues for FOSS-based Supply Chain Management – Black Duck Software | Open source is typically outside of normal commercial software procurement processes The Challenges Increasingly diverse and distributed set of development resources... | |
| Greg Kelton Palamida | The Intersection of IP and Security in Open Source | The use of open source software continues to grow on a daily basis. Today, enterprise applications contain 40% to 70% open source code and this fact has legal, development, IT security, risk... | |
| Marco Ciurcina StudioLegale.it | Update on FOSS before the courts | The presentation reflects on French and Italian case law that, in recent years, has dealt with free software from two different angles: public procurement and consumer protection against joint sales... | |
| Mark Henley Wragge & Co. LLP | F/OSS to promote vendor independence/avoid lock-in in the enterprise | This paper focuses on the use of FLOSS to promote vendor independence/avoid lock-in in the enterprise. It looks at how FLOSS projects follow open standards, how forking prevents lock-in if a... |
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