Lawrence Rosen (also Larry Rosen) is an American attorney and computer specialist. He is a founding partner of Rosenlaw & Einschlag, a Californian technology law firm, specializing in intellectual property protection, licensing and business transactions for technology companies. He also served as general counsel and secretary of the

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, and participates in open source foundations and projects, such as the

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, and the

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.
Rosen was a lecturer in law at

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in Spring 2006. He is the author of the

Academic Free License The Academic Free License (AFL) is a permissive free software license written in 2002 by Lawrence E. Rosen, a former general counsel of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The license grants similar rights to the BSD, MIT, UoI/NCSA and Apache l ...

and the

Open Software License The Open Software License (OSL) is a software license created by Lawrence Rosen. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has certified it as an open-source license, but the Debian project judged version 1.1 to be incompatible with the DFSG. The OSL i ...

. He is a member of the board of the

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. Rosen was a director of the

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from July 2011 to March 2012.

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Lawrence Rosen's page
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Rosenlaw & Einschlag
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