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Open Source Licenses

almo
January 25, 2021

Open Source Licenses

Introduction to open source licenses, including historical remarks, quantitative data about the impact of the open ecosystem and some tools and references.

almo

January 25, 2021
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  1. Open Source Licenses Freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change

    and improve the software Andres L. Martínez a.k.a almo @davilagrau
  2. Intellectual property Creations of the mind: inventions; literary and artistic

    works; and symbols, names and images used in commerce. Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash
  3. Trademaker vs Copyright vs Patent Photo by Thomas Bormans on

    Unsplash Photo by Marcus Castro on Unsplash
  4. Software License All software is copyright protected A software license

    is a legal instrument, governing the use or redistribution of software Licensed, not sold? Not in EU (first-sale doctrine)
  5. MIT License Copyright <YEAR> <COPYRIGHT HOLDER> Permission is hereby granted,

    free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
  6. License your code HOW TO APPLY THE APACHE LICENSE TO

    YOUR WORK Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner] Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
  7. Open Source Guides - TODO https://github.com/todogroup/guides To build a successful

    open source program, start here: • How to Create an Open Source Program • Measuring Your Open Source Program • Tools for Measuring Your Open Source Program For open source program management best practices: • Using Open Source Code • Participating in Open Source Communities • Recruiting Open Source Developers • Starting an Open Source Project • Open Source Reading List
  8. Proprietary + Confidential Android Open Source Project (AOSP) Building a

    platform that’s open to everyone Custom Safe Compatible
  9. Proprietary + Confidential Truly Open Source Under half the code

    is now written by Google Stewarded by the Cloud Native Compute Foundation™ A Linux Foundation Collaborative Project™ Contribution by companies
  10. A healthy ecosystem Cloud providers: Azure, VMware, Openstack, Rackspace, CenturyLink

    Distros: CoreOS Tectonic, Mirantis Murano (OpenStack), RedHat Atomic, Hyper.sh, VMTurbo PaaS: RedHat OpenShift, Deis, Rancher, WSO2, Gondor/Kel, Apcera CD: Fabric8, Shippable, CloudBees, Solano Deployment: Kumoru, Redspread, Spinnaker Package managers: Helm, KPM Monitoring: Prometheus, Sysdig, Datadog Networking: Weaveworks, Tigera, OpenContrail Storage: NetApp, ClusterHQ Appliances: Redapt, Diamante
  11. Thank you! Freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and

    improve the software Andres L. Martínez a.k.a almo @davilagrau