Its master legal strategist is eben moglen, longtime counsel to the free software foundation and the head of the software freedom law center. But it is also in danger of losing, because those same services now represent a huge threat to our freedom as a result of the vast stores of information they hold about us, and. Eben moglen, says wikipedia, is a professor of law and legal history at columbia university, and is the founder, directorcounsel and chairman of the software freedom law center, whose client list includes numerous pro bono clients, such as the free software foundation. Moglen fires back at the software freedom conservancy lwn.
The fullday program featured technical and legal presentations on blockchain, fintech, automotive foss and gpl. Eben moglen explains freedom and free software in two video. My research, ongoing for a decade, follows a purely experimental paradigm. Microsoft and disney, the world trade organization, the united states congress and the european commission. A spectre is haunting multinational capitalismthe spectre of free information. Eben moglen i am a historian and a computer programmer, but primarily i am a lawyer. So, its just great to have both of you in one place, and i think we should just begin. Which way the network behaves is determined solely by the software that comprises it. Eben moglen on gpl compliance and building communities. Eben moglen business profile software freedom law center. From the press release of the software freedom law center.
Software freedom law center to offer legal support to. At a public meeting of the internet society of new york on february 5th, moglen will ask you to consider how much worse things have become since then and explain. Eben moglen is a professor of law and legal history at columbia university, and is the founder, directorcounsel and chairman of software freedom law center, whose client list includes numerous pro bono clients, such as the free software foundation. They can make freedom of thought and information a permanent, ineradicable feature of the net that holds our souls. View eben moglens profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community.
Heres the latest from eben moglen on the software freedom law centers trademark attack against the software freedom conservancy. Eben moglen interviewed by glyn moody free software has won. Eben moglen, software freedom through diplomacy, sflc 16. Eben moglen is a professor of law and legal history at columbia university and the founding director of the software freedom law center. Eben moglen is professor of law at columbia law school and founding director of the software freedom law center.
Professor moglen began building software as a professional programmer at age. He is also a board member of the free software foundation and the long standing general counsel to the free software foundation, very active in enforcing and in keeping the gnu general public. Eben moglen is a professor of law and legal history at columbia university, and is the founder, directorcounsel and chairman of software freedom law center contents 1 professional biography. Eben moglen is a professor of law at columbia law school, founding director of the software freedom law center, and the leader of the freedombox project. It runs free software and offers an increasing number of services ranging from a calendar or jabber server to a wiki or vpn. Software freedom law center 14th anniversary fall conference 2018 session v. Im going to use the phrase free software to describe this material and im going to suggest to you that the choice of words is relevant. I cant explain what it feels like standing here at my conference at columbia law school.
Moglen, who now runs the software freedom law center, spoke to a convention of 2,000 freesoftware programmers in brussels, urging. A former board member of the free software foundation and the founder. Professor is an academic rank at universities and other postsecondary education and research institutions in most countries. Mar 17, 2010 eben moglen interviewed by glyn moody free software has won. Software freedom law center the software freedom law center sflc is an organization that provides legal representation and related services to protectand advance free software open source software. Eben moglen is one of those people in the community that delivers his message in a clear, concise way that never fails to capture the attention of his audiences. The writer is professor of law and legal history at columbia university, us, and foundingdirector, software freedom law centre. The software freedom law center sflc is an organization that provides pro bono legal representation and related services to notforprofit developers of free softwareopen source software. Eben moglen 2010 software you can trust freedombox is free and open source software and an official part of debian, a well established gnulinux distribution. Eben moglen steps down from free software foundation. The software freedom law center sflc is an organization that provides pro bono legal representation and related services to notforprofit developers of free software open source software. Eben moglen freedom in the cloud 2010 internet archive. He has appeared numerous times on software and privacyrelated issues as amicus curiae before the us supreme court.
He was awarded the electronic frontier foundations 2003 pioneer award for contribution to freedom in the electronic society. Eben moglen delivers freedombox turns ten speech november 19, 2019 on saturday, november 16th, the software freedom law center cohosted a hackathon with the freedombox foundation to commemorate the upcoming tenyear anniversary of the freedombox projects founding. Eben moglen is reshaping internet with a freedom box the. Eben moglen is a professor of law and legal history at columbia university, and is the founder, directorcounsel and chairman of software freedom law center. Microsoft claims software like linux violates its patents. In 1991, he represented philip zimmerman, the developer of pgp pretty good privacy, threatened with prosecution by the us government for making strong encryption free software that everyone. Eben, larry laid it down at the end of his talk and said. A series of talks by eben moglen on the impact of edward snowdens revelations at columbia law school in association with software freedom law center. Media that spy on and datamine the public are capable of destroying humanitys most precious freedom. Since 1993 he has served pro bono publico as general counsel of the free software foundation. Software freedom law center was created in 2005, and is a nonprofit legal services company, which provides free legal advice to nonprofit makers and distributors of free and open source software. Moglen was closely involved with the free software. Try to create freedom by destroying illegitimate power sheltered behind intellectual property law.
Freedombox is designed to be your own inexpensive server at home. Eben moglen keynote, innovation under austerity openalia. As a lawyer, law professor and software programmer, eben moglen is passionate about technology, software and user freedom. Eben moglen explains freedom and free software in two. Nov 02, 2016 software freedom law center president and executive director eben moglen speaks about the most effective ways to approach open source license compliance at the sflc fall conference on oct. Document licenses and the future of free culture wikisource. February 1, 2005 a columbia university law professor eben moglen today announced the formation of the software freedom law center, whose mission is to provide probono legal services globally to eligible nonprofit open source software projects and developers. At a public meeting of the internet society of new york on february 5, moglen asked you to consider how much worse things have become since then and explain what. It is correct that there are, at any rate at the moment, for the moment, lots of manufacturers of hardware who see a possible advantage to them in the construction of hardware controlled not by the human being.
Florian mueller responds to eben moglens oraclesun. Software freedom law center, the probono law firm led by eben moglen, professor of law at columbia law school and the worlds foremost authority on free and open source software law held its annual fall conference at columbia law school, new york on oct. Eben moglen is a professor of law and legal history at columbia university, and is the founder, directorcounsel and chairman of. Legal summit for software freedom at cls columbia law school. Moglen fires back at the software freedom conservancy. The software freedom law center directed by eben moglen, one of the worlds leading experts on law as applied to software provides legal representation and other lawrelated services to protect and advance free and open source software.
Eben is admitted to practice in the state of new york and before the united states supreme court. Eben moglen, a columbia law professor, is championing the freedom box, a home server that could protect dissidents from policestate snoopers. May 28, 2007 its master legal strategist is eben moglen, longtime counsel to the free software foundation and the head of the software freedom law center, which counsels foss projects on how to protect. Software freedom law center president and executive director eben moglen speaks about the most effective ways to approach open source license compliance at the sflc fall conference on oct. The end of one era, the start of another description. Eben moglen, a professor of law and legal history at columbia university and the founding director of the software freedom law center, warned you about privacy and the cloud before.
And that we have to insist upon, all the time, uncompromi. Microsoft and disney, the world trade organization, the united states congress and. May 19, 2012 media that spy on and datamine the public are capable of destroying humanitys most precious freedom. The fullday program featured technical and legal presentations on blockchain. As counsel, moglen was charged with enforcing the gnu general public license gpl on behalf of the fsf,4 and later became heavily involved with. The subject matter were going to talk about is variously named, and the words have some resonances of importance. At the hackathon, eben moglen delivered a speech in which he reflected on the past ten years of freedombox and the projects future. Moglen is closely involved with the free software foundation, serving as general counsel since 1994 and board member from 2000 to 2007. Besides being a professor at columbia law, former clerk in u. The software freedom law center provides legal representation and other law related services to protect and advance free. Earlier this month, moglen and mishi choudhary, both of the software freedom law center, told a packed crowd at the re.
Sep 30, 2019 the software freedom law center sflc is an organization that provides pro bono legal representation and related services to notforprofit developers of free software open source software. Liberation by software eben moglen opinion the guardian. A professor of law and legal history at columbia law school and founder of the software freedom law center, moglens role in legitimising the open source model cannot be overlooked, particularly as a counterpoint to some of the more religiously driven. Nov 02, 2016 software freedom law center, the probono law firm led by eben moglen, professor of law at columbia law school and the worlds foremost authority on free and open source software law held its annual fall conference at columbia law school, new york on oct. I have been doing a job this year, on behalf of the free software foundation as a client of the software freedom law center. Transcript of eben moglens harvard speech slashdot. Eben moglen is professor of law and legal history at columbia university, and is founder, directorcounsel and chairman of software freedom law centre, which provides pro bono legal representation. Were building software for smart devices whose engineered purpose is to work together to facilitate free communication among people, safely and securely, beyond the ambition of the strongest power to penetrate. As general counsel to the free software foundation, eben moglen has provided that standing. The law center is dedicated to assisting nonprofit open source developers and projects. On saturday, november 16th, the software freedom law center cohosted a hackathon with the freedombox foundation to commemorate the upcoming tenyear anniversary of the freedombox projects founding.
Our web interface allows you to easily install and configure your apps. Trusted computing is one important aspect of the struggle for free hardware, right, that was what i meant to speak about. And a license once applied to software must be respected. Moglen will return to teaching at columbia university and spend much of his free time on the software freedom law center. Dec 22, 2017 heres the latest from eben moglen on the software freedom law centers trademark attack against the software freedom conservancy. Last week eben moglen, founder and executive director of the software freedom law center sflc, submitted an independent opinion on the oraclesun merger to the european union eu.
Ensuring that media remain structured to support rather than suppress. Ask free software legal giant eben moglen slashdot. Jun 02, 2012 eben moglen is a professor of law at columbia law school, founding director of the software freedom law center, and the leader of the freedombox project. He worked as a designer of advanced computer programming languages at ibm from 1979 to 1985.
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