Open Compliance Summit 2024: Full Schedule

In-person Event | October 30-31, 2024
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Open Compliance Summit is an exclusive event for Linux Foundation members and select invitees. Attendance is limited to ensure ease of networking and collaboration. The summit (like prior) will be held under Chatham House Rule. Please consent to this rule before you request an invitation.

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09:40 JST

Keynote: The Dark Ages of GPL Compliance 20 Years Ago - Harald Welte, sysmocom

Wednesday October 30, 2024 09:40 - 10:00 JST

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It's been 20 years since the first in-court enforcement of the GNU General Public License. This anniversary provides an occasion for a retrospective on what, how and why happened back then - both as a reminder to those who have been around, or as a history lesson to the younger generation. In the early 2000s, the IT industry was already adopting Linux and other FOSS on a massive scale, but at the same time did not generally concern themselves a lot with license compliance. This in turn lead to a spike of enforcement activities. During the last two decades, many improvements in compliance related awareness, processes and tooling have happened. Does this mean the license compliance question has been solved?

Speakers

Harald Welte

Founder, sysmocom

In his former life, Harald was a Linux Kernel developer, primarily active in the netfilter/iptables subsystem. In 2004, he founded the gpl-violations.org project, which achieved considerable success in early GPL enforcement. During the past 16 years, his main focus has shifted to... Read More →

Wednesday October 30, 2024 09:40 - 10:00 JST
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Keynote Sessions, Licensing

Content Experience Level Intermediate

10:05 JST

Keynote: License Changes: Why They Happen and What to Do - Heather Meeker, Tech Law Partners LLP

Wednesday October 30, 2024 10:05 - 10:25 JST

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License and policy changes are in the news recently: Hashicorp, Red Hat CENTOS, Grafana, and others. These changes often result in forks and other disruption. This session takes an analytical look at why these changes take place, their impact on license rights, and why they succeed or fail.

Speakers

Heather Meeker

Partner, Tech Law Partners LLP

Heather Meeker is a partner at Tech Law Partners, LLP, www.techlawpartners.com, a law firm focused on technology transactions. She was a founding partner at OSS Capital, www.oss.capital, an early stage venture capital fund specializing in commercial open source development. Meeker... Read More →

Wednesday October 30, 2024 10:05 - 10:25 JST
Room 1

Keynote Sessions, Licensing

Content Experience Level Intermediate