Women in Licensing Prior Event

September 1, 2004 (Wednesday)

Speaker Presentations

LES Women in Licensing Bay Area September Lunch Seminar
"OPEN SOURCE LICENSING"
SEPT 1, 2004 (WED)
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Venue:
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
2655 Seely Avenue, San Jose, CA 95134
(Building 5, Pebble Beach Auditorium)

Following our two successful receptions in May and July, Women in Licensing is presenting a lunch seminar on "Open Source Licensing." Open source licensing has become a crucial part of the software development and licensing process. How is open source different from the proprietary or other source code licensing models? What are the benefits and pitfalls of open source licenses? What is the best way to manage the use of open source code within your organization? We have invited a panel of highly accomplished speakers from the open source, in-house and law firm communities to share their best practices and real-life experiences. A question and answer session will follow.

Speaker Presentations:
(Click on the speaker's name to download his/her presentation)

Mitchell Baker
President, Mozilla Foundation;
Director, Open Source Applications Foundation

Mitchell is the President of the Mozilla Foundation, home of the Mozilla project, one of the largest open-source software development projects in existence. Prior to joining the Mozilla organization in 1999, Mitchell was Associate General Counsel for Netscape Communications Corporation. During that time she wrote the Mozilla Public License, an open source license which has been widely adopted and emulated as a "middle ground" between the "BSD" license and the GNU General Public License. Mitchell is also a board member of Open Source Applications Foundation. Mitchell received her J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law and her A.B. in Asian Studies from the University of California at Berkeley.

Julie Matsumoto-Busette
Senior Counsel,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Julie is an attorney in the OEM and Technologies Group of the Global Sales Legal Division at Sun Microsystems, Inc. She is responsible for software licenses and ancillary agreements for Sun's Java platform technologies, web services, identity and webtop products and the Solaris operating environment. She is part of a team responsible for placing Java in over 120 million mobile devices, television set top boxes, laptop and desktop computers and enterprise application servers. Sun's licensing models include both open source and open standards based licensing models and combinations thereof. Julie received her J.D. from Santa Clara University and her B.A. in Social Field Studies from University of California at Berkeley.

Stacy Snowman
Partner,
Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP

Stacy is a partner in Gray Cary's Commercial & Technology Transactions group and is the former chair of the group. She specializes in revenue transactions involving intellectual property and commercial issues for technology companies, both domestically and internationally. Her work involves open source licensing, outsourcing transactions, structuring channel strategies, intellectual property audits, research and development transactions, competitive intelligence programs, and government technology contracts.

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