Z:gnu-www-ja-moglen-harvard-speech-2004--2de515-This is work for us, and it is/en

This is work for us, and it is work for us which a lot of smart lawyers are doing, but they are doing it around the world in various licenses and other legal structures connected with software in inconsistent ways. And the inconsistency among the ways in which lawyers are attempting to cope with the threats posed to software by patents are a serious difficulty for us. We need to conduct a very high-level seminar in the next five years around the world over the relationship between patentability and free software ideas and get square for ourselves what license terms and ways of working minimize the risks posed by patents.