Malcolm Bain
Malcolm Bain has been teaching, mentoring and advising on the legal issues of open source for nearly 20 years, and has lots of grey hair as a consequence.
Session
03-17
15:20
30min
Update on licensing - "not really" open source licenses
Malcolm Bain
This talks takes a look at the recent "nearly open source" licenses of Elastic, Mongo, the Commons Clause, and others, and discusses this evolution in the (not really) open source licensing space: are they really required for economic sustainability of the project? Do they prevent free-riding? What impact do they have on open source as a whole: are they fragmenting our community?
Legal & Compliance
Stage 2