Software Licensing and Compliance: It's All About Community

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Explains license categories (permissive vs copyleft, strong vs weak copyleft), points out Apache’s patent clause, and focuses compliance on providing complete and corresponding source including dependencies and build instructions. Describes community enforcement principles: start private, assume good intentions, aim to get source, use lawsuits as last resort. Advises early dependency tracking and cross‑functional ownership (engineering legal business community). Gives resources (copyleft.org OSI GPL FAQ Apache FSF) and cites a Conservancy–VMware compliance outcome where code was removed rather than released.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:50Agenda
3. 3:32Copyright History
4. 7:51Permissive
5. 13:06Compliance
6. 16:19Complete Corresponding Source
7. 17:39Who Does Compliance
8. 23:26Community Enforcement Principles
9. 25:40When to start thinking about compliance
10. 31:17Resources
11. 35:54Questions

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