Keynote: Stop Peeing in the Pool!
summary
Argument that open source suffers a gradual brand erosion as companies relicense projects with near‑open but noncompliant terms, often adding clauses that bar competitors and break 10 specific criteria enforced by the OSI. Examples: relicense drift, mention of the Fair Source License as an alternative, and projects like Kubernetes and Linux that rely on cross‑company contributions. Warns that the vast ecosystem (developers write ~2–4% of code while 90+% comes from others) and the shared dependency graph fragment, forcing legal reviews and killing velocity.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction and pool metaphor
- 3:29Open source definition and OSI
- 8:01Threats to open source definition
- 12:56Dependency graph risks
- 14:18Call to action and conclusion
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