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Interview: Open-source Advocate Eben Moglen
News Eben Moglen admits he is a "talker" and his performance during our brief 30-minute chat does nothing to persuade otherwise. This is not the first time that Moglen has made an appearance at a Red Hat Summit.
[May 11, 2007, 15:15]
Eben Moglen: GPLv3 Set For Success
News Eben Moglen, the law professor and open-source legal expert who has helped lead the revision of the General Public License, is predicting broad success for the upcoming new version. I predict that within the first year of adoption of GPLv3 there...
[May 24, 2007, 11:40]
Free Software's White Knight
News Eben Moglen, the longstanding legal counsel for the Free Software Eben Moglen at his desk, in the Software Freedom Law Center Read Moglen's thoughts on the GPL 3 process and licence in our February interview with him on the subject.
[March 15, 2006, 12:20]
Free Software 'not Anti-capitalist'
News Free software lawyer Eben Moglen has denied that free software is incompatible with capitalism, a claim that has been made by various companies, including Microsoft and SCO. The full interview with Eben Moglen, where he discusses his work with the...
[March 15, 2006, 16:10]
Open Source Politics Are 'American As Apple Pie'
Talkback The statement that "open source is a fundamentally American concept" is ridiculous and entirely out of character for Eben Moglen. Come on, Eben! For centuries, open source methodologies and politics have prevailed in academia, from the times of the...
[June 2, 2006, 20:16]
13-year Old To Address Linux Conference
Talkback That's Eben Moglen, not Even Moglen! http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/
[February 4, 2005, 8:58]
SCO To Attack Validity Of Linux Licence
Talkback By Eben Moglen ( http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/ ) professor of law and legal history at Columbia University Law OSDL position paper, written by Eben Moglen on the issue of SCO and intellectual property.http://www.osdl.org/docs...
[August 15, 2003, 15:24]
SCO Wanted To Gag Torvalds
News SCO also tried to silence Eben Moglen, a Columbia University professor who, until this month, was a director of the Free Software Foundation, and Eric Raymond, a controversial open-source advocate, saying they claimed to be IBM consultants.
[April 30, 2007, 14:38]
Hyped
Talkback But note the report at http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6837365670.html where Eben Moglen is quoted as saying, "This is a story being hyped by the Reuters guy who wrote it.
[February 5, 2007, 9:54]
Open Source Politics Are 'American As Apple Pie'
News That was the bold claim made by Eben Moglen, professor of law at Columbia Law School, speaking at Red Hat's annual user summit on Thursday in Nashville, Tennessee. Moglen, who is also the founding director of The Software Freedom Law Center, was...
[June 2, 2006, 10:55]
GPL 3 To Take Hard Line On DRM
News The new version of the most widely used open source licence takes a "highly aggressive" stance against the digital rights management software that's widely favoured in the entertainment industry, said Eben Moglen, general counsel for the Free...
[January 19, 2006, 9:00]
GPL: An Update Is On The Horizon
News When a draft of the new licence is released, the debate will be contentious and resolving the issues will take at least one year, predicted Eben Moglen, a Columbia law professor and legal counsel for the Free Software Foundation that oversees the...
[February 14, 2005, 14:45]
McBride Reaches For Rhetoric In Linux Battle
Talkback Darl McBride offers a legal opinion, and two Professors of Law by name of Eben Moglen and Lawrence Lessig respond: http://www.linuxworld.com/story/38115.htm http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/001611.shtml#001611
[December 8, 2003, 22:16]
Defending The World's Freedoms
News Eben Moglen's life just got a lot busier. Moglen's client is FSF founder and leader Richard Stallman, who seeks to propagate his philosophical and technical goals through the GPL. Moglen discussed the changed license terms, his concerns about how...
[January 20, 2006, 15:10]
GPL 'minimises Risks Of Open Source'
News Eben Moglen, a prominent open source software lawyer, argued that legal risks from using free and open source software have been minimised by the GPL. In addition, Moglen railed against the US patent system, saying it was a "sin and a shame", with...
[November 3, 2005, 8:55]
Moglen Resigns As FSF Director
News Eben Moglen has resigned as a director of the Free Software Foundation, a position he has held for seven years. Citing the "winding down" of the drafting of General Public License version 3 (GPLv3), Moglen explained on his blog that "leaving is...
[April 26, 2007, 16:55]
Open Source Defence Centre Launched
News Eben Moglen, a Columbia University law professor who has represented the Free Software Foundation in legal cases, said that he will help run the new Software Freedom Law Centre, which is set to be announced on Tuesday.
[February 1, 2005, 8:45]
Open-source Gurus Slam SCO
News Objecting to SCO's demands are Linus Torvalds, who began the Linux project 12 years ago and who still leads its development, and Eben Moglen, the attorney for the Free Software Foundation (FSF), which created the legal and technological framework...
[August 1, 2003, 9:10]
GPL 3 Draft 'by Early 2006'
News That will begin a public debate that should end with GPL version 3 in early 2007, said Eben Moglen, the Columbia law school professor who represents licence overseer the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
[August 10, 2005, 9:35]
SCO's 'Las Vegas Code': All Show?
News The latest debunking of SCO's claims comes from Eben Moglen, professor of law at Columbia University Law School. Thus, says Moglen, SCO's second example was of code that in the public domain to begin with.
[November 27, 2003, 12:40]
