Helping the US Government with Open Source
Lawrence Rosen
Dear Friends,
I am pleased to tell you that I have been retained through the Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) to support the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks & Information Integration -- NII), Chief Information Officer the CIO of the US Department of Defense (DOD), with DOD's open source and open standards activities. This is in addition to—not instead of—my other activities, including as member of and counsel to Apache Software Foundation, member of the board of directors of Open Web Foundation, and lots of other activities with other clients of Rosenlaw & Einschlag.
Ethics law applying to attorneys requires that I inform you of this potential conflict of interest. However, I do not expect any actual conflict of interest. Encouraging the US government to use and create open source software so my other clients can share it, and vice versa, seems like win-win to me now.
Please let me know if you have any concerns.
Best,
/Larry
P.S. The U.S. DOD is but one of my clients, and not yet even a large part of the practice of Rosenlaw & Einschlag. We are always looking for other opportunities. :-)
Lawrence Rosen
Rosenlaw & Einschlag, a technology law firm (www.rosenlaw.com)
3001 King Ranch Road, Ukiah, CA 95482
Office: 707-485-1242 Cell: 707-478-8932
Apache Software Foundation (Apache), member and counsel (www.apache.org)
Open Web Foundation (OWF), board member (www.openwebfoundation.org)
Stanford University, Instructor in Law
Author, Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law (Prentice Hall 2004)
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Thanks for the note and congratulations. I see no issue here, but an opportunity!
EHL
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