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November 19-21 2024
Napa, California
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Thursday November 21, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm PST
Many popular open source projects are owned and driven by corporations, and in today's difficult economic climate, those companies are under increasing pressure to protect their businesses or show stronger returns for investors.. One response to this pressure has been the relicensing of popular open source projects to more restrictive licenses. In some cases, this relicensing has resulted in a hard fork of the original project. Both the relicensing and the resulting fork create turmoil for the users of that project and the community of contributors, and this impact can have a ripple effect throughout the ecosystem. In this session, we’ll discuss the following topics using a data-driven approach: dynamics around relicensing that results in such hard forks; examples of several forks along with the impact on the communities; and thoughts about what this means for the future of open source. The audience will walk away with an appreciation of why relicensing results in hostile forks and how to think about this issue when selecting which open source projects to use.
Speakers
avatar for Dawn Foster

Dawn Foster

Director of Data Science, CHAOSS
Dr. Dawn Foster works as the Director of Data Science for CHAOSS where she is also a board member / maintainer. She is co-chair of CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy and an OpenUK board member. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like VMware and Intel with expertise in community... Read More →
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Stephen Walli

Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
I'm a principal program manager at Microsoft in the Azure Office of the CTO. I've worked with Docker, been a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett-Packard, technical director at the Outercurve Foundation, founded a start-up, and been a writer and consultant. I've been around open... Read More →
Thursday November 21, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm PST
Silverado East
  Sustainability & Innovation in Open Source
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