Everything That Rises Might Converge
We may now be living in a golden age of software copyright jurisprudence. Perhaps not in eventual outcomes – the Supreme Court’s decision...
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Periodic commentary and observations on areas of the firm's expertise.
McCoy Smith
Apr 20, 20223 min
License Grammaticism
Back in the days of my early education (and probably most people of my generation who went through the U.S. education system), English...
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McCoy Smith
Apr 1, 20222 min
When You Have to Shoot – Shoot. Don’t Talk.
If you’ve spent any amount of time in the world of Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) – or the world of “free and open source” anything –...
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McCoy Smith
Jan 20, 20221 min
Supporting OSI
Lex Pan Law this year became a supporting partner of the Open Source Initiative. Most of you who work in the Free & Open Source Software...
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McCoy Smith
Mar 18, 20213 min
Reclaiming the Public Domain: Patent Edition
The potential negative impact of patents against free and open source software (FOSS) has been an expressed concern since at least the...
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McCoy Smith
Oct 7, 20204 min
Oracle/Google
For those who weren't paying attention (and it seems like almost anyone working in tech law was), oral arguments were held today in the...
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McCoy Smith
Sep 11, 20201 min
GPLv3's "Installation Information" Requirement
During the drafting process of GPLv3, one of the additional requirements added over GPLv2 was the "Installation Information" requirement...
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McCoy Smith
Aug 20, 20202 min
Extreme Copyleft, Redux
At Copyleft Conf 2019, I did a presentation under the provocative title "Extreme Copyleft, Boon or Bane?" The main point of the...
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McCoy Smith
Jul 5, 20203 min
License Proliferation (And the OSD?) Revisited
On the USA’s Independence Day, 2020, the Open Source Initiative posted an announcement about the formation of at least one new committee...
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McCoy Smith
Jan 6, 20203 min
Copyleftism
Almost a year ago, at the inaugural CopyleftConf in Brussels (the day after FOSDEM), I did a presentation with the somewhat provocative...
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McCoy Smith
Sep 19, 20191 min
Hello, World!
Just a short post to launch the firm's periodic musing on various developments in the intersection of technology and law. For the...
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