DevOps Days MTL 2019 - Richard Fontana

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Argues that copyright’s right to exclude is the legal engine behind both proprietary and open source licensing, traces how permissive grants and copyleft were invented to recreate a software commons, and shows three current threats: patent carve-outs, companies adding restrictions like Commons Clause or SSPL to block cloud competitors, and the rise of ethical source licenses that add use-based prohibitions; recommends keeping the open source edge narrow and using proprietary licensing when restriction is the business goal.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:06Open source and law
3. 3:54Property and right to exclude
4. 6:03Software Commons before copyright
5. 8:51Open-source licenses subvert control
6. 10:33Paradoxes of open-source licensing
7. 13:43License curation and open source edge
8. 16:31Attacks on open-source definitions
9. 21:48Ethical source and public policy
10. 25:42Conclusion
11. 26:03Q&A

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