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 ...
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 ...
I’m going to be doing one (and possibly more) AMAs on the worst(?) topic in open source. That’s right... licensing!
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 ...
Navigating the open source license landscape can be tricky. There’s a myriad of license options out there, from permissive licenses like the MIT ...
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 ...
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 ...
The past few months have seen an explosion of new open source licenses and license-like documents. A proposal from MongoDB has generated intense ...
