September 20: Webcast - Why Open Source Projects Need a License #MCLE

There’s been an active debate in the open source community about “post open source software” (POSS), where a growing number of open source projects have no license declared.  The term "POSS" was first used by James Governor, founder of analyst firm RedMonk, who Tweeted "Younger devs today are about POSS -- Post open source software.  (Expletive Deleted) the license and governance, just commit to github.”  Today 77% of projects on GitHub do not specify licenses, prompting the site’s recent move to help developers choose licenses.
Is this a problem?  While a free-form style of development that eschews licensing may be popular, it can have the unintended consequence of greatly impeding open source adoption: commercial organizations may not be able to use software if the terms and conditions are not known.
In this webinar open source legal experts Karen Copenhaver (Partner at Choate, Hall & Stewart and Counsel for the Linux Foundation) and Mark Radcliffe (Partner at DLA Piper and General Counsel for the Open Source Initiative) along with Peter Vescuso from Black Duck, will present data on the state of licensing use across the world’s software forges with a focus on GitHub, explore the issue from the perspective of commercial users of open source, and why it is in the best interests of software authors to select a license.
Title:
Why Open Source Projects Need a License
When/Where:
Friday September 20, 2013
11:30am EDT
Webcast
Registration is required to attend this event. Please register now.
Speakers:

• Karen Copenhaver, Partner at Choate, Hall & Stewart and Counsel for the Linux Foundation
• Mark Radcliffe, Partner at DLA Piper and General Counsel for the Open Source Initiative
• Peter Vescuso from Black Duck Software.

By:
Black Duck Software
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