A history of open-source licensing from a lawyer who helped blaze the trail

<p>Heather is a General Partner at <a href="https://oss.capital/">OSS Capital</a>, which provides VC backing to seed-stage COSS (commercial open source) startups. Her <a href="https://www.techlawpartners.com/">law practice</a> focuses on intellectual property and open-source licensing, and she serves on the <a href="https://ieee-isto.org/board/heather-j-meeker/">IEEE-ISTO</a> Board of Directors.</p><p>Connect with Heather on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/heathermeeker/">LinkedIn</a> or explore her work on her <a href="https://heathermeeker.com/">website</a>.</p><p>Today’s <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/8842/lifeboat">Lifeboat badge</a> goes to user <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/3131203/keshlam">keshlam</a> for their answer to the question <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22085985/why-do-we-need-abstract-classes-in-java">Why do we need abstract classes in Java?</a>.</p>