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So you want to write a successful license

In early 2020, when international travel was still a responsible thing one could do, I gave a talk on "what makes a license successful" at FOSDEM in ...
Luis Villa
by Luis Villa
on January 21, 2021

Luis Villa

Luis Villa

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Ask me your toughest licensing questions for our live AMA this week

By Luis Villa on August 24, 2020
I’m going to be doing one (and possibly more) AMAs on the worst(?) topic in open source. That’s right... licensing!

Evaluating an ethical license for corporate use

By Luis Villa on February 25, 2020
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 ...

Open source licenses: 2019 year in review

By Luis Villa on January 23, 2020
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 ...

Bus factor, boss factor, and the economics of disappearing maintainers

By Luis Villa on August 13, 2019
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 ...

We gathered 16 open source maintainers in Boston. Here's what happened.

By Luis Villa on May 30, 2019
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 ...

Video: why not-so-open licenses are not-so-good

By Luis Villa on April 11, 2019
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 ...

Video: what software development teams should know about open source licenses

By Luis Villa on April 2, 2019
If you build applications using open source components, you may not often think about how those underlying components are licensed. Some may use a ...

Introducing the Tidelift guide to working with open source licenses

By Luis Villa on March 5, 2019
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 ...

Why we submitted a legal brief to the Supreme Court this week

By Luis Villa on February 28, 2019
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 ...

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