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Brian W. Carver -- This photo is copyright by the photographer and is excluded from the Creative Commons License that governs Brian's contributions to this site.Brian is an attorney licensed to practice in California, but you are not his client and this is not legal advice. Before becoming a professor at U.C. Berkeley’s School of Information, his practice focused on technology, copyright, trade secret, trademark, and general commercial litigation. Now his research and teaching focus on the same subjects. He has a strong interest in the legal issues surrounding free software and is the author of Share and Share Alike: Understanding and Enforcing Open Source and Free Software Licenses, 20 Berkeley Tech. L. J. 443 (2005). The opinions expressed on this site are not even his own, much less those of his employer.