Open Source Software and Copyright: Legal and Business Considerations for Government Use
Monday, July 26, 2010      9:00 AM-4:00 PM

Library of Congress, Madison Building, Mumford Room (6th floor)

CO-SPONSORED BY
  CENDI, the Law Library of Congress, and the
 Federal Library and Information Center Committee

Preliminary Program

8:30-9:00

Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00-9:15

Welcome -- Roberta Shaffer, Law Librarian of Congress
Announcements -- Christopher Cole, Co-Chair CENDI Copyright Working Group, National Agricultural Library

9:15-10:00

Computer Software Copyright Basics -- Rob Kasunic, US Copyright Office

10:00-10:45

Open Source Software Basics -- David A.Wheeler, Institute for Defense Analyses

10:45-11:00

Break

11:00-12:30

U.S. Government Software Acquisitions Policies  --

• FAR -- Gary Borda, NASA, Office of General Counsel
• DFARS -- Vicki Allums, Defense Information System Agency, Office of General Counsel

12:30-1:30

Lunch  [on your own]

1:30-2:30

Distributing Government Software; Integrating into OSS --

• Hope O'Keeffe, Library of Congress, Office of General Counsel
• Gary Borda, NASA, Office of General Counsel 

2:30-3:30

Using OSS Software for Government Purposes  --  

• Tom Morton, Forge.mil Chief Engineer
• Richard A. Lambert, Intellectual Property Consultant

3:30-4:00

Vision/Way Ahead
Audience Discussion and Q&A

Moderator: Daniel Risacher, Associate Director, Enterprise Services and Integration, NII/DoD-CIO