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November 19-21 2024
Napa, California
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Wednesday November 20, 2024 10:00am - 10:30am PST
The licensing of open source software, as embodied in source code and package metadata, has long suffered from lack of clarity and consistency. This has become more evident with the use of sophisticated license scanning tools. Discussions among open source legal and compliance experts often express the desirability of having such problems addressed upstream.

We will describe the progress on an initiative driven by Red Hat and the Fedora Project community to revitalize its traditional role of curating a distribution with careful attention to licensing. This initiative includes: improved documentation and explanation of license policies, evolution of "allowed" and "not allowed" license lists from a project wiki to a repository of machine-readable data; the use of SPDX identifiers in package license metadata, including close collaboration with the SPDX-legal community; and traceable license review process. We will cover an overview of the process, challenges faced and overcome, and planned next steps.

By sharing the Fedora approach, we hope others can learn or borrow from this work and also contribute to improving license information upstream.
Speakers
avatar for Jilayne Lovejoy

Jilayne Lovejoy

Product Counsel, Red Hat
Jilayne is a US lawyer and community leader and has held various community and in-house roles related to open source. She is a product counsel at Red Hat working on a variety of topics.Jilayne leads the Linux Foundation sponsored Software Package Data Exchange® (SPDX) legal team... Read More →
avatar for Richard Fontana

Richard Fontana

Senior Commercial Counsel, Red Hat
Richard Fontana is a lawyer at Red Hat and a member of the Products, Privacy and Innovation team in the Red Hat legal department. He specializes in legal matters relating to software development, with a significant focus on open source strategy and compliance as well as AI/machine... Read More →
Wednesday November 20, 2024 10:00am - 10:30am PST
Vintner's Court
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