On 9/11/06, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
why it would be of significant relevance to a Linux forum, which mostly doesn't have a software licence compliance problem anyway, I fail to see...
I think it's relevant, especially for the increasing number of companies who develop commercial software intended to be deployed into a linux/unix environment, but which utilise/ships with third-party libraries which may or may not be appropriately licensed. cheers, Anth
Pia Waugh wrote: > Hi all, > > thought this might be of interest for a few people. > > Cheers, > Pia > > PS - For the record, Waugh Partners is helping with this seminar and product > launch. > > ----- Forwarded message from Con Fiamegos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > How well do you know your software? How can you be sure it is all actually > yours? Do you need help managing multiple software licences within the one > product? > > Imagine being able to test your source code for anything that shouldn't be > there, giving you and your users peace of mind. > > Event: Software compliance - avoiding the next SCO > Date: September 20th - 8am till 11am > Catering: Breakfast provided > Venue: Level 1, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney, 2000 > Phone: 02 9266 9001 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Intended Audience: Software developers, Open Source companies, lawyers, > researchers, Government, IP specialists > Cost: Free > > Seating is limited - register now! You could win a tasty Treo 650 door prize. > > http://www.ocs.au.com/news.php?page=newsEvents > > Open Channel Solutions presents Black Duck to the Australian market. Black Duck > provide a world class Software Compliance Management service. Software > Compliance Management is a new discipline that focuses on the intellectual > property aspect of software development. Best practices in Software Compliance > Management involve developers, marketers, and lawyers working together to > govern software assets without bogging down development or limiting > possibilities. Black Duck allows companies to proactively and confidently > combine homegrown, third party, and open source software to build applications > that meet internal or market needs - without putting them or their customers at > risk. > > This short seminar includes presenters from Black Duck to talk about this > problem space and how they can help you deal with it. They will be talking > through real world examples of software compliancy issues, as well as giving a > live demo running source code through their product. > > Event Agenda: > > 8:00 Breakfast and registration > > 8:20 Welcome and introduction by Con Fiamegos (Open Channel > Solutions) > > 8:30 Software compliance: What's the problem? Chander Khanna (Black > Duck) Chander will discuss why software compliance is so important > at the moment and the risks businesses face. > > 9:00 Introducing Black Duck by Chander Khanna (Black Duck) > Black Duck and how can they help? > > 9:30 Tea Break > > 9:45 The Australian Open Source Ecosystem and Software Compliance > by Pia Waugh (Waugh Partners) > > 9:55 Case Studies by Ronan Fagan (Black Duck) > Ronan will cover real case studies of businesses who had > compliancy issues with their software, and how these problems > were overcome. > > 10:25 Source code compliance demonstration by Ronan Fagan (Black Duck) > Bring some source code of your own to test in this demo. Ronan will > show how the Black Duck product, ProtexIP can scan your source > code and deliver comprehensive reports including how the code is > licenced and where it comes from. > > 11:00 Close and prize drawn by Con Fiamegos (Open Channel Solutions) > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://lannetlinux.com> When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian states. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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