This document summarizes a webinar about open source software licensing. It discusses the purpose of licensing and different types of open source licenses, including permissive licenses like BSD and MIT licenses, and copyleft licenses like the GPL. It also touches on topics like copyright, derivative works, governance of open source projects, patent wars relating to open source, and organizations that help enforce open source licenses. The webinar aimed to help people understand why licensing is important for open source software and help them choose appropriate licenses for their projects and use of open source code.

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Licensing Webinair, 18 November 2013
Contacts
Amanda Brock, Origin International Technology Law
<amanda.brock@origin.co.uk>

2. Good morning
Amanda Brock, Director, Origin International
Tech Law
Amanda.brock@origin.co.uk / 07718516954

3. Canonical and Ubuntu

4. What is PROSE?

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for
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Developer
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Flexible, so you can use only the tools
you want and integrate with external
tools as desired
Modern tools -- SVN, Git, Mercurial,
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15. Why do you need a licence?
Copyright belongs to the
creator!
What right do I have to use
the code?

17. Business Policy

18. Copyleft and the GPL
“I make my code available for use in free
software, and not for use in proprietary
software, in order to encourage other
people who write software to make it free
as well.”
“I figure that since proprietary software
developers use copyright to stop us from
sharing, we co-operators can use
copyright to give other co-operators an
advantage of their own: they can use our
code.”

19. Viral Effect of Copyleft
© Darrin Wortlehock BY-NC-SA

20. Derivative Works and Combinations

21. Open Source Initiative

22. Permissive Licences
• BSD
• MIT
• Apache
© Brave Heart BY-NC-ND

23. Permissive BSD
Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>
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.

24. Governance and in-bound
Codes of Conduct
Assignments and Licences
Committer policies

25. Patent Wars
Published by Forbes

26. OIN

27. Trademarks
®

28. Enforcers
– FSF, SFLC, SFC, GPL Violations.org

29. Outputs:
Manual
Summary Doc
Licence Chooser

30. Thanks for your time
Questions?