On September 15, 2022 the EU unveiled a draft of the Cyber Resiliency Act (CRA), an eighty-seven page document detailing proposed new rules meant to ...
Open source software is often loosely referred to as a “commons,” but we rarely think deeply about what that means. Elinor Ostrom, ...
Evaluating the RAIL license family Machine learning (ML) is the hot topic in tech circles right now, and tech lawyers are no exception. Virtually ...
This blog post was originally published on our Tidelift community page. Some of you may have seen that open source has been in the news coming out of ...
Last week, United States Senators Gary Peters and Rob Portman introduced the Securing Open Source Software Act of 2022, and referred it to the ...
Over the weekend, there was much ado on tech Twitter about the Log4Shell vulnerability and the reality of unpaid maintainers being asked to shoulder ...
For a long time, there were two basic tests for releasing open source: “does it do what I need it to do?” and “does it compile?” Sure, it was nice if ...
On June 2, the U.S. government posted a call for comments on the minimum elements that should be required in a software bill of materials (SBOM). At ...
When the Server Side Public License (SSPL) was submitted to the Open Source Initiative (OSI), many people criticized it, and the license was ...
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