Lawrence Rosen

Lawrence Rosen, also known as Larry Rosen, is an American attorney and computer specialist who is a founding partner of Rosenlaw and Einschlag, a Californian technology law firm that specializes in intellectual property protection, licensing and business transactions for technology companies. He served as general counsel and secretary of the Open Source Initiative and takes part in open source foundations and projects such as the Python Software Foundation and the Free Standards Group. He is the author of the Academic Free License and the Open Software License, was a lecturer in law at Stanford Law School in spring 2006, is a member of the board of the Open Web Foundation, and was a director of the Apache Software Foundation from July 2011 to March 2012.