About the Author

Lawrence Rosen is both an attorney and a computer specialist. He is founding partner of Rosenlaw & Einschlag, a technology law firm with offices in Los Altos Hills and Ukiah, California, that specializes in intellectual property, licensing, and business transactions for technology companies.

Rosen is general counsel and secretary of the nonprofit Open Source Initiative (OSI), which promotes the Open Source Definition for the good of the community, reviews and approves major open source licenses, and manages the "OSI Certified" certification mark for open source software.

Before he became an attorney Rosen was a computer technologist. He managed computing activities and taught computer programming and database design at Stanford University, later going into industry where he coordinated the design, development, manufacturing, and marketing of data communications products. He received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College, pursued a master of computer science degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and received his law degree from Santa Clara University.