Open Compliance Summit 2017

Permissive licences have been gaining popularity for a while now. However, when looked at holistically it can be shown that the quid-pro-quo element of GPL fosters better collaboration amongs both individual and corporate contributors, facilitates better governance and provides a fairer patent licensing regime than any permissive
licence, thus making GPL the most business friendly open source licence available.

This talk will begin with a review of what corporations seek to get out of open source (namely a shared contribution to a platform or universal adoption of a standard) why equity of participation is essential to this and follow with a detailed comparison of how GPL achieves this vs Apache-2.0. We will also touch on ideal governance an how the compliance requirements of GPL enforce this; how patent licensing equity is achieved and end with tips for promoting the GPL.