European Legal and Technical Network

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The Freedom Task Force coordinates a European Legal and Technical Network. Each participant is referred to as a 'delegate' of the respective network. Membership is by invitation only and if you are interested in participating you can contact us.

Our goal is to strengthen the legal foundation of Free Software through building connections between professionals and researchers active on the continent. The network currently has over 50 legal experts, over 30 technical experts and covers sixteen European countries. It also maintains contacts in Canada, the USA, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan.

Some network delegates are explicitly recommended by FSFE. To be explicitly recommended the delegate must be approved by the governing council of FSFE.

Explicitly recommended lawyers:

Germany
Dr. Till Jaeger is a partner in the Berlin law firm JBB Rechtsanwälte. He represents FSFE in Germany and Harald Welte in GPL enforcement cases. He is chair of the "Internationalization" subcommittee within the GPLv3 process.
Email: jaeger [at] jbb.de
Telephone: +49 30 443 765 0
Post: JBB Rechtsanwälte, Christinenstrasse 18/19, 10119 Berlin, Germany.

Italy
Carlo Piana is a lawyer and Free Software advocate based in Milan. Among other things, he has represented FSFE and Samba in the Microsoft vs. EC Commission Antitrust case and is helping and advising many other Free Software projects to obtain necessary interoperability information following the victory in that case. He is also active in the promotion of Open Standards and lectures at the University of Milan.
Email: carlo [at ] piana.eu
Web: ("Law is Freedom") http://www.piana.eu
Professional website: ("Law is Freedom") http://law.piana.eu
Telephone:+39 347 8835209
Post:Avv. Carlo Piana, Piazza Castello 24, 20121 Milan, Italy.

Explicitly recommended technical experts:

Germany
Harald Welte is a kernel programmer, the founder of GPL-Violations.org and one of the primary engineers behind the creation of the OpenMoko Free Software telephone project.
Email: laforge [at] gnumonks.org

The Netherlands
Armijn Hemel is a system administrator and a primary member of the GPL-Violations.org team.
Email: armijn [at] uulug.nl

If you want to find an expert in a country where we offer no explicit recommendation please contact us directly.

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