Open Source Licenses at the Center

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Open source licenses shape governance and reuse beyond code: Google just releases Medici clinical trial simulator (BSD) — Jupyter notebooks and tools for planning trials — and the company reports 150,000 pull requests on 70,000 repositories last year. Community programs show scale: 15,000 students in Google Summer of Code across 680 projects and Season of Docs mentoring growth from 44 to 80 technical writers. Trademarks drive a new project, Open Usage Commons, and real-world forks (Android kernel wake‑lock work) later merge back and reach ~2.5 billion devices.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:30What makes open source special
3. 3:20Open source licenses
4. 5:05What are open source licenses
5. 6:15Gatekeeping
6. 8:40Open Source Programs
7. 10:00Trademarks
8. 11:00Forking
9. 12:15Merge

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