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«Desenredar el Nudo»: Making Sense of the License Choices for Code, and Maybe for AI

Protagonista: McCoy Smith
Año: 2024
País: Argentina
Género: Documental
Track: Open Source
Idioma: Inglés

The presentation will give an overview of the current license choices for open source, and some thoughts on how to make those choices easier to understand by showing how although there are over 100 choices available, many choices are redundant or infrequently used. There will also be a discussion of some changes in how license choices are presented to the open source community. Finally, some speculation on how open source license choices may need to be rethought when considering creating "Open Source" AI systems.

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«Desenredar el Nudo»: Making Sense of the License Choices for Code, and Maybe for AI

Sobre McCoy Smith

McCoy Smith

Founding Attorney

P. McCoy Smith is the Founding Attorney at Lex Pan Law, an intellectual property law firm in the US, and Opsequio, an open source compliance consultancy. Previously, he spent 20 years in the legal department of a Fortune 50 multinational technology company as a intellectual property specialist, 8 years in private law practice, litigating and prosecuting U.S. patents, and 3 years as a patent examiner at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. He is licensed to practice law in Oregon, California & New York, and to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. From 2014-2020 was on the editorial board of the Journal of Open Law, Technology & Society (JOLTS), and starting in 2023 will be on the editorial board of the American Intellectual Property Law Quarterly Journal (AIPLAQJ). He is also the author or co-author of chapters on open source and copyright, and patents, in “Open Source Law, Policy & Practice” (2022, Oxford University Press).

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