03-17, 15:20–15:50 (Europe/Berlin), Stage 2
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?
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.