Community Impacts of Legal Decisions

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Legal policies can have unintended collateral effects on the growth and adoption of community open source projects. This was presented to the Legal DevRoom during FOSDEM 2016

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Community Impacts of Legal
Decisions
Legal Policy as a Barrier to Entry
Dave Neary
SDN/NFV Community Strategy
30 January 2016

Legal decisions have
(unintended) consequences

(Most) Developers don't care
about the Law

Any time a developer
has to care about the law...
It's a bug

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License choice
• “Friendly for business” vs “Friendly to proprietary forks”
• Viral vs reciprocal
• Fitting with your ecosystem (interoperability, identity)
• Factoring in the cost of enforcement

INSERT DESIGNATOR, IF NEEDED7
Copyright licensing agreements
• First contact with project is
paperwork
• Many developers will not sign
them
• Creates an uneven playing field
• Alternatives: DCO, Mozilla
Committers Agreement,
organisational agreements

INSERT DESIGNATOR, IF NEEDED8
Patent threats
• Chilling effects: G729, GIF,
Bitcoin
• Ignorance is bliss
• The role of patent
promises/patent licenses in
copyright license

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Community Impacts of Legal Decisions

1. Community Impacts of Legal Decisions Legal Policy as a Barrier to Entry Dave Neary SDN/NFV Community Strategy 30 January 2016

2. The role of lawyers

3. Legal decisions have (unintended) consequences

4. (Most) Developers don't care about the Law

5. Any time a developer has to care about the law... It's a bug

6. INSERT DESIGNATOR, IF NEEDED6 License choice • “Friendly for business” vs “Friendly to proprietary forks” • Viral vs reciprocal • Fitting with your ecosystem (interoperability, identity) • Factoring in the cost of enforcement

7. INSERT DESIGNATOR, IF NEEDED7 Copyright licensing agreements • First contact with project is paperwork • Many developers will not sign them • Creates an uneven playing field • Alternatives: DCO, Mozilla Committers Agreement, organisational agreements

8. INSERT DESIGNATOR, IF NEEDED8 Patent threats • Chilling effects: G729, GIF, Bitcoin • Ignorance is bliss • The role of patent promises/patent licenses in copyright license

9. INSERT DESIGNATOR, IF NEEDED9 Trademark • Communities feel like they share ownership of the brand • Identity is a delicate and complex thing • Alternative approaches: Abandonment, CM, incremental approach • http://fossmarks.org

10. Join us at http://www.opnfv.org Thank you!

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