Max Sills

Whether it is "Open Core", the Mongo SSPL or the Common Clause, the core ethos of open source has been under attack for some time. As those parties who seek to limit the promise of free software enjoys more and more success, the community will need stronger and more forceful tools to defend ourselves. Presenters: Michael Cheng (Facebook), Max Sills (Google), Chris Aniszczyk (Linux Foundation)

Other people: Chris Aniszczyk Michael Cheng

License Compliance has become big business. Many proprietary tools exist, but fortunately in recent years FLOSS tools to aid understanding the licenses of codebases have been created. This panel includes developers of many of these freely available tools. We'll discuss what these tools do, if they can actually address compliance problems in the wild yet, and the general challenges of developing freely available tools in a heavily proprietarized industry.

Other people: Bradley M. Kuhn Michael Jaeger Philippe Ombredanne Valerio Cosentino Thomas Steenbergen

Companies who use and contribute to free and open source often have internal advocates who make policy decisions, help with tooling recommendations, and teach others about the importance of free and open source. Different offices and departments will often have differences in the ways they are managing using, contributing to, and releasing free and open source software.

The panel will explore the different approaches companies have to this work.

Other people: Richard Fontana Carol Smith Jilayne Lovejoy

In this talk I will summarize the case law on the contract or license question in the U.S. Certain obligations under the GPL may be merely contractual, meaning there are less damages and enforcement mechanisms available to a plaintiff, while other obligations may have more teeth. I will use this analysis to help the community think about how it might craft software licenses in the future.