Open Source in EU Policy
summary
EU lawmakers once ignored open source but now count it as a public good: €93 billion economic impact and 90% of software using OSS push regulators to act. A rushed AI Act exemption enables recent open washing, so OSI spends two years building an open source AI definition that mandates the Four Freedoms, shares source, model parameters, lists public training data or documents inaccessible/transient data, and gives reproducible data descriptions; work continues in Brussels on standards, CRA implementation and codes of practice.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to talk
- 1:09EU policy landscape overview
- 3:16Evolution of EU understanding of open source
- 5:23Current role of open source in EU policy
- 8:10Future challenges and OSI actions
- 11:00Personal experience with AI Act exemption
- 13:07Defining open source AI
- 15:36Fighting open washing in AI
- 17:45Q&A and closing remarks
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