Name: Rethinking GPL Interpretations to Promote Licence Compatibility - James Bottomley, Microsoft
Start: 2024-10-31T11:55:00+0900
End: 2024-10-31T12:15:00+0900

In-person Event | October 30-31, 2024
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Thursday October 31, 2024 11:55 - 12:15 JST

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the incompatibility of open source licences has been one of the banes of our ecosystem (see for example the openvpn apache GPL licence amendment for mbedtls). All of these incompatibilities serve merely to promote confusion among open source developers about how the may legitimately share code among truly open projects, cause massive headaches for users and distributors trying to ensure licence compliance and do nothing to deter people out to violate the licence. The biggest problematic incompatibility is that of GPL with popular permissive licences like Apache-2. This comes about because of the licence steward (the FSF) and its rigid interpretation of the no additional restrictions clause. This talk will argue that this clause isn't as rigid as the FSF thinks and, in fact, restrictions compatible with the purpose of the licence (including the indemnity clause of Apache-2) can be accommodated.

Speakers

James Bottomley

Partner Architect, Microsoft

James Bottomley is a Partner Architect at Microsoft working on Linux. He is also Linux Kernel maintainer of the SCSI subsystem. He started at AT&T Bell labs to work on Lock Manager technology for clustering. In 2000 he helped found SteelEye Technology to bring HA to Linux, becoming... Read More →

Thursday October 31, 2024 11:55 - 12:15 JST
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Breakout Sessions, Licensing

Content Experience Level Intermediate

Open Compliance Summit 2024

James Bottomley

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