Protecting the open-source license commons

Richard Fontana has a long history working with open-source licenses in commercial environments. He came to the 2018 Open Source Summit Europe with a talk that, he said, had never before been presented outside of "secret assemblies of lawyers"; it gave an interesting view of licenses as resources that are shared within the community and the risks that this shared nature may present. While our licenses have many good properties, including a de facto standardization role, those properties come with some unique and increasing risks when it comes to litigation.

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