Lawrence Rosen
Encyclopedia
Lawrence Rosen is an attorney and computer specialist. He is a founding partner of Rosenlaw & Einschlag, a Californian technology law firm, specializing in intellectual property protection, licensing and business transactions for technology companies. He also served as general counsel and secretary of the Open Source Initiative
, and advises open source companies and projects, such as the Apache Software Foundation
, Python software
, and the Free Standards Group
.
Rosen was a lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School
in Spring 2006. He is the author of the Academic Free License
and the Open Software License
. He is a member of the board of the Open Web Foundation
and the Apache Software Foundation
.
Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Initiative is an organization dedicated to promoting open source software.The organization was founded in February 1998, by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, prompted by Netscape Communications Corporation publishing the source code for its flagship Netscape Communicator product...
, and advises open source companies and projects, such as the Apache Software Foundation
Apache Software Foundation
The Apache Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server. The ASF was formed from the Apache Group and incorporated in Delaware, U.S., in June 1999.The Apache Software Foundation is a decentralized community of developers...
, Python software
Python software
The Python programming language is actively used by many people, both in industry and academia for a wide variety of purposes.-Integrated development environments:* Boa Constructor, a cross-platform IDE for Python development...
, and the Free Standards Group
Free Standards Group
The Free Standards Group was an industry non-profit consortium chartered to primarily specify and drive the adoption of open source standards.All standards developed by the Free Standards Group were released under open terms and test suites, sample implementations and other software were released...
.
Rosen was a lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School
Stanford Law School
Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located in the area known as the Silicon Valley, near Palo Alto, California in the United States. The Law School was established in 1893 when former President Benjamin Harrison joined the faculty as the first professor of law...
in Spring 2006. He is the author of the Academic Free License
Academic Free License
The Academic Free License is a permissive free software license written in 2002 by Lawrence E. Rosen, the general counsel of the Open Source Initiative ....
and the Open Software License
Open Software License
The Open Software License is a software license created by Lawrence Rosen. The Open Source Initiative has certified it as an open source license, but the Debian project judged version 1.1 to be incompatible with the DFSG...
. He is a member of the board of the Open Web Foundation
Open Web Foundation
The Open Web Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development and protection of specifications for emerging web technologies. The foundation follows an open source model similar to the Apache Software Foundation...
and the Apache Software Foundation
Apache Software Foundation
The Apache Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server. The ASF was formed from the Apache Group and incorporated in Delaware, U.S., in June 1999.The Apache Software Foundation is a decentralized community of developers...
.