Heather Meeker is a shareholder at the Silicon Valley office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP, an international law firm well known for its intellectual property practice. She specializes in drafting and negotiating intellectual property transactions for software and other technology clients, with an emphasis on open source software. She is co-chair of the ABA committee to open source. Heather was a programmer/analyst before becoming an attorney.
To Open Source or not to Open Source - that is the question. Or is it? Open
Source has matured into a robust development model, and many businesses that
shied away from it are reconsidering it. The good news these days is that
Open Source is no longer an all-or-nothing choice. What Is a Dual-Licensing
Model?A dual-licensing model is a business model in which a company that
markets a commercial software product gives its licensees the choice of two
licensing models: Open Source and closed source (or "proprietary"). In this
business model, a customer can choose to license the software under the terms
of an Open Source license such as the GNU General Public License (GPL). Open
Source licenses let licensees sublicense the product's source code to
multiple levels of sub-lice... (more)
In programmer heaven, all software is open source software. Solving problems
is as easy as downloading the code you need - none of which comes with any
nasty copyright baggage - and the only part you need to write for yourself is
the coolest, most interesting algorithm, which compiles, runs, and works on
the first try. Naturally, there aren't software patents in heaven, either: I
don't t... (more)
Heather Meeker is a shareholder at the Silicon Valley office of Greenberg Traurig, LLP, an international law firm well known for its intellectual property practice. She specializes in drafting and negotiating intellectual property transactions for software and other technology clients, with an emphasis on open source software. She is co-chair of the ABA committee to open source. Heather was a programmer/analyst before becoming an attorney.
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