Open Source Legal Issues Explained
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This document discusses open source software and provides guidance for lawyers on addressing open source legal issues. It defines open source software, notes common misconceptions, outlines when open source use may present legal concerns, and provides tips for evaluating a client's open source code use and compliance with open source licenses.
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- 1. Jennifer Buchanan O’Neill Vice President and Managing Assistant General Counsel, Product Development I’m Not An IT Lawyer: Why Does “Open Source” Matter to Me? October 14, 2009 American Bar Association
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- CA (NASDAQ: CA), the world's leading independent IT management software company, helps customers optimize IT for better business results. CA's Enterprise IT Management solutions for mainframe and distributed computing enable Lean IT—empowering organizations to more effectively govern, manage and secure their IT operations. Founded in 1976, CA today is a global company with headquarters in the United States and 150 offices in more than 45 countries. CA serves more than 99% of Fortune 1000® companies, as well as government entities, educational institutions and thousands of other companies in diverse industries worldwide.
- Jennifer Buchanan O’Neill is Vice President and Managing Assistant General Counsel at CA, Inc., where she leads the Product Development practice group and provides legal counsel on inbound and outbound technology licensing, product development and marketing, mergers and acquisitions, product-related litigation, and regulatory compliance. Ms. O’Neill previously served as Senior Counsel of Intellectual Property and Strategic Sourcing for CIGNA and as in-house counsel for a number of divisions of IBM Corporation. Prior to her employment by IBM, she served as Deputy Assistant General Counsel of Finance and Operations for the United States Environmental Protection Agency, where her duties included negotiating the agency’s cooperative research and development agreements, copyright and publication contracts, and other licensing arrangements. Ms. O’Neill clerked at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Virginia. She has a strong interest in open source licensing and has worked closely with that community in the establishment of best practices for the contribution, licensing and maintenance of code. She graduated from Duke Law School in 1993 and received a B.A. in political science and philosophy from Grove City College in 1990.