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Wednesday, October 15 • 11:15am - 12:05pm
Sisyphus is Happy: Experiences From the Fight for Software Legal Compliance - Alexios Zavras (zvr), Intel

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Nowadays software is usually a combination of own-written code and FOSS; in some cases it also contains proprietary parts licensed under non-FOSS licenses. This talk will present lessons learned while building a corporate software legal compliance system that is sensitive to the needs of developers while still pleasing the lawyers. It will touch upon different aspects of the set of processes and mechanisms used. Such mechanisms exist to provide answers to questions such as how can FOSS be used; how can FOSS be integrated; and how can FOSS be released? It is obvious that the task of legal compliance involves developers as well as people from legal professions; therefore an important part of structuring any system or set of processes has to be the satisfaction of both these groups of users.
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Alexios Zavras

Software Engineer, Intel
Alexios Zavras (zvr) is the Senior Open Source Compliance Engineer of Intel Corp. He has been involved with Free and Open Source Software since 1983, and is an evangelist for all things Open. He has presented in a number of national and international conferences, including past LF... Read More →

Wednesday October 15, 2014 11:15am - 12:05pm
Room 16
  Legal, Experience Level - Any

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