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Vizio lawsuit part 2: adding more complexity to the GPL

My post last week on the litigation between Vizio and the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) over the General Public License (GPL) seems to have ...
Luis Villa
by Luis Villa
on January 24, 2024

Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL?

By Luis Villa on January 16, 2024
Last week an important judicial ruling came down on a very intriguing case about open source license compliance. In this post, I'll talk about what ...

Recap: October 13th Deep Dive: AI Society panel

By Caitlin Bixby on November 10, 2022
A few weeks ago, Tidelift co-founder and general counsel Luis Villa joined Kat Walsh, general counsel at Creative Commons, Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis, AI ...

Introducing Free as in Friday, a casual conversation about open source and more

By Amy Hays on March 4, 2021
Last week, I asked Tidelift co-founder and resident licensing guru Luis Villa when we can schedule his next webinar. He said, and I quote: “I had a ...

So you want to write a successful license

By Luis Villa on January 21, 2021
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 ...

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!

Webinar: Everything you never wanted to know about open source licenses and were too bored to ask

By Amy Hays on August 13, 2020
Most developers don’t dream of one day growing up to be open source licensing experts. But with the vast majority of enterprise applications now ...

Recently revamped! The Tidelift guide to working with open source licenses

By Amy Hays on July 30, 2020
Navigating the open source license landscape can be tricky. There’s a myriad of license options out there, from permissive licenses like the MIT ...

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 ...

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 ...

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