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The Cryptographic Autonomy License
Introducing the Cryptographic Autonomy License, or CAL. The CAL is a new strong network copyleft license especially appropriate for distributed systems.
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Further Comments on the SSPL
My previous post was discussed on License-Review and was shared on Hacker News, where it engendered some discussion. Some good points were made by various people, which I thought it might be useful to respond to here. First: Community considerations First, I should say that I don't necessarily disag
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MongoDB's Server Side Public License is likely unenforceable
Update: Afew more thoughts on the SSPL in response to some counterarguments that have been raised. A few days ago, MongoDB, Inc changed the license of its widely-used database software to the "Server Side Public License" or SSPL. They also submitted the SSPL for review by the Open Source Initiative,
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The Copyrightability of APIs
Apropos to the current discussions in the Oracle-Google trial, I wrote this in 2007: COPYRIGHT IN HEADER FILES One particularly difficult issue concerns copyright protection of header files. An individual name or symbol in a header file cannot be copyrighted, but the particular selection of symbols
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A Model IP and Open Source Contribution Policy
Many times I come across companies that have open source policies that are just backwards. For many companies, their default legal position is that they don't want anything to do with open source. They don't want their partners working with it, they don't want their suppliers working with it, and th
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The 2015 Future of Open Source Survey
Black Duck Software and North Bridge Venture Capital just released a the results of their "2015 Future of Open Source" survey. The summary is below. 2015 Future of Open Source Survey Results from North Bridge Amongst the high level of bizspeak, a couple things stood out to me: Slide 8: The big numbe
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The PSF: Behind the curtain
Several months back I put out a call, asking what people would like to learn about the Python Software Foundation in my talk at PyCon. I got a lot of responses, both in email and twitter. My favorite was from David Beazley: I followed this advice and spent time watching a number of Samuel Beckett pl
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Convenience, open source, and the cloud
Matt Asay wonders whether the superior convenience of cloud-based services may reduce the uptake of open source solutions: Open source risks being devoured by the very cloud to which it gave birth, by @mjasay: Google, Facebook, and the other dominant web companies depend upon open source. Born in th