In my 2019 open source licenses year in review, I suggested that 2020 would see more adoption of licenses with a strong ethical focus. Just on ...
2019 was the most active year in open source licenses in a very, very long time, with news from China to Silicon Valley, from rawest capitalism to ...
We've jokingly referred to the problem of disappearing maintainers as "bus factor" for about as far back as I can remember. In short, the idea is ...
This month, we had our first in-person event for open source maintainers who get income from the Tidelift Subscription (we call them “lifters”). The ...
You may have read some of the reports over the past year about organizations trying out new open source licensing strategies that aren’t actually all ...
If you build applications using open source components, you may not often think about how those underlying components are licensed. Some may use a ...
I’ve spent my career deeply immersed in open source licensing issues. And before I was a lawyer, I was a software developer. So I’ve talked with many ...
On Monday, alongside the Python Software Foundation, we submitted a legal brief to the Supreme Court. This is a bit unusual for a small startup, so I ...
Early last year we worked together to brainstorm and define our Tidelift values. There was some risk that it was too early, but we wanted to ...
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