Government regulation of open source is here. Are you ready?
Patrick Masson
Join the Apereo Foundation and Mike Millinkovich, Eclipse Foundation Executive Director, recognized industry leader, and open source community champion, for a presentation and Q&A on new regulations impacting open source.
How is your campus or project preparing for these new regulations and legislation?
- US Federal Source Code Policy
- US Executive Order on Cybersecurity
- US Security of Open Source Software Act
- US Software Bill of Materials
- EU ICT Road Map
- EU Innovation and Digital Sovereignty
- EU Cybersecurity Resilience Act.
The collaborative development and sharing of software built using
open source licensing and community collaboration models is one of the
most successful socioeconomic experiments in history. Studies have shown
that between 70 and 90% of all software products, services, and
applications are open source. Without this model of reuse-based
permissionless innovation, many aspects of the modern world would simply
not exist: the internet, smartphones, and social media are but a few
examples.
But with great success comes great responsibility. Responsibility that
we have collectively managed to avoid. Until now. Around the world,
governments are realizing that there is a global community which is
shaping the future that they don’t even influence, never mind control.
And a global supply chain of open source software which is
simultaneously unmanaged, unregulated, unsecured and critical to
economic success.
The days of unconstrained open source innovation are coming to an end. The question is, what comes next? Well-meaning attempts to manage, regulate, and secure the global open source phenomenon run the risk of killing the very thing that made it successful in the first place: the ability to share, study, modify, and freely distribute software with everyone, for any purpose. This talk is going to discuss how we got here, and examine some policy options for the future that will protect open source from being destroyed by its own success.
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