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Been thinking a lot about what comes after “free software” & “open source.” Both terms were coined when the tech industry (& the world) was a very different place. I think we’ve outgrown them.
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If we want free and open source software to continue to be about giving power to individuals at the expense of companies, then it’s time for a change.
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I want to read more about the legal aspects of open source licensing - both generally in terms of what kind of case law exists, and specifically around what constitutes "distribution."
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But IANAL, so I've googled, but I don't know how to evaluate the trustworthiness of the results. I assume that in law, as in software development, there are a lot of bad takes out there.
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@unixterminal the big question is above about laws and what constitutes distribution. -
There are cases on contract interpretation that indirectly govern how open source licenses are read but surprisingly few cases specifically on the unique aspects of the licenses themselves. You could argue this is evidence open source successfully self-governs.
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I don't know if any of the Open Source Leadership Summit sessions get recorded and published, but this came up several times the year I attended
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Also: There is not quite as much on what constitutes "distribution", but the CAL (currently at OSI for review) exercises that concept about as fully as possible-leading to extensive discussion on the OSI mailing lists. License:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PFX7PtPoSbSe7cC7BEoh44OjbWN91-IQOyGzO5Zr-1Q/edit?usp=sharing …
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I think a lot of the relevant law would be details of copyright - not necessarily specific to open source. Software licence often just give permission to do things that copyright would otherwise restrict, so the question of what exactly copyright restricts is critical.
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