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Policy on Corporate use of Generative AI
List of AI Copyright Lawsuits
My Videos on Open Source Licensing
Open Source Basics
- Open Source Initiative Licenses Page
- Creative Commons Licenses
- Blue Oak Council Permissive License List
- The Open Source Definition
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar
- Revolution OS — Cool Movie on Linux
- US Copyright Law
Licensing FAQs
Cool Blogs on Open Source Law and Business
GPLv3
- GPLv3 text
- FSF Summary
- The Kernel Maintainers’ Letter On the Second Discussion Draft
- Black Duck’s listing of GPL/LGPLv3 projects
- Last Call Rationale Document Rationale documents for previous drafts are also on the FSF site.
Open Source Compliance Tools
- OpenChain
- SPDX
- FOSSA
- Fossology
- Binary Analysis Tool
- Black Duck (Synopsys)
- Snyk
Technical Stuff: not suitable for technophobes (reader discretion advised)
- Linux System Calls
- Bruce Perens on combining GPL and non-GPL software An excellent article on a complex topic.
Some Open Source Software
Just for Fun
- The chicken dance license
- The beer license
- The Free Software Song Stallman singing the free software song, which is to the tune of Sadi Moma
- Sadi Moma (the real version)
Weird Uses of Open Source
Open source is a term people like to use is odd ways. Here are some of oddest examples.