Making Open Source More Open (23 02-2012)
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Making Open Source More “Open”
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My presentation on the trend towards more permissive licensing in open source at Itechlaw Asia 2012 on 23 February 2012 in Bangalore. My paper for the presentation can be downloaded at http://cl.ly/282g0I0q450g2A2T1M1M
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Making Open Source
More “Open”
“Closed” or “restrictive” OSS licenses
GNU General Public License (GPL)
“Open” or “Permissive” OSS licenses
Viral effect of the GPL
Open source means business
“Why don’t you use open source
software?”
GPL ⬇ Apache ⬆
MIT⬆
Legal complexity
New open source business models
Open data and Open APIs
GPL v2 is
unintelligible!
“Combined work” and
“Distribution”
GPL version 3
Free Software Movement
BusyBox
Software Freedom Conservatory
GPL enforcement
Conditions for license
reinstatement
Retroactive disclosure
GPL and open source
business models
Dual licensing
Copyleft deters competion
SaaS
MySQL
Copyleft waiver
New open source business models
Hadoop
OpenStack
Cassandra
CloudFoundry
Note.js
FlockDB
Palm webOS
NASA
Android
Facebook, Google, Amazon
IT-infrastructure applications
Non-business differentiating
software
Cost sharing
Services
Apache v2 MIT
Maximum choice and flexibility
No copyleft
Less need for lawyers :-(
Quality of the software
Low cost of freeriders
A final trend
Jay Lyman of
451Group
“open APIs are the new open
source.”
“Openness trend”
DevOps
Polyglot programming
“Open enough”
Amazon web service
Conclusion
Proprietary software more “open” through
openAPIs
Open source software is
becoming more “open”
“Openness” is the real virus!
Thank you!
Martin von Haller Groenbaek
partner, BvHD Law firm Copenhagen
[email protected] www.bvhd.dk
Blog: www.vonhaller.dk Twitter: @vonhaller
