Understanding Copyleft - Aaron Williamson

<p><strong>On this episode of the podcast we talk open source readiness, compliance, and how to understand the copyleft license. Copyleft licenses like the GNU GPL come with a higher compliance burden than more permissive licenses, because they require licensees to provide source code to recipients -- sometimes just for the open source component, and sometimes for any derivative work produced by the licensee. These licenses therefore raise the thorniest issues of license compliance.</strong></p> <p><strong>In this podcast, FINOS Open Source Readiness lead Aaron Williamson discusses:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>What is a derivative work of a software project</strong></li> <li><strong>What constitutes distribution under copyright law</strong></li> <li><strong>Incompatibility issues between copyleft and other licenses</strong></li> <li><strong>The differences between GPL versions 2 and 3</strong></li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Aaron Williamson: </strong><a href="https://www.akwlc.com/"><strong>williamson.legal</strong></a></p> <p><strong>PDF slides to follow along: </strong><a href="https://www.finos.org/hubfs/OSR%20Meeting%202020-07-21.pdf"><strong>https://www.finos.org/hubfs/OSR%20Meeting%202020-07-21.pdf</strong></a></p> <p><strong>Video version: </strong><a href="https://www.finos.org/blog/understanding-copyleft-aaron-williamson"><strong>https://www.finos.org/blog/understanding-copyleft-aaron-williamson</strong></a></p> <p><strong>FINOS Open Source License Compliance Handbook: </strong><a href="https://www.finos.org/open-source-license-compliance-handbook"><strong>https://www.finos.org/open-source-license-compliance-handbook</strong></a></p> <p><br></p> <p><a href="https://bit.ly/3l2cs3n"><strong>Open Source Strategy Forum - https://bit.ly/3l2cs3n</strong></a></p> <p><a href="https://bit.ly/3x2JX8c"><strong>Members Meeting &amp; OSSF London - 4-5 October - https://bit.ly/3x2JX8c</strong></a></p> <p><a href="https://bit.ly/2TCETJV"><strong>Members Meeting &amp; OSSF NYC - 9-10 November - https://bit.ly/2