Sustain: Episode 5: Trademark Versus Copyright to Sustain OSS with Mehdi Medjaoui
SustainOSS 8/10/19 - Episode Page
Sponsors
Panel
Richard Littauer
Jon Schlinkert
Eric Berry
Joined By Special Guest: Mehdi Medjaoui
Episode Summary
Mehdi Medjaoui is the Steering Committee Member of The Maintainers and the founder of OAuth.io and APIdays Conferences. He is also the EU commission 2020 expert on open data and open APIs. He has co-authored O’Reilly Book “Continuous API management” and created the Maintainers Contract and ALIAS protocol. Mehdi and the panel shine a light on the lack of compensation for developers that maintain open source projects. A majority of these projects are used by many profitable end products but these profits do not make its way back to the developers that contribute with their open source code. The panel explores the best methods to write open source code and still be recognized for the development effort via trademark, licensing and copyright.
Links
Why I Do Not Support a Node Foundation by Eran Hammer
A Trademark-based contract for OSS maintainers
https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch
IBM closes $34 billion Red Hat acquisition: Now it's time to deliver
Walmart's investment in open source isn't cheap
Picks
Eric Berry:
Making Uncommon Knowledge Common
SuperHuman marketing efforts
Jon Schlinkert:
Richard Littauer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cherry_Orchard
Mehdi Medjaoui:
https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code
Special Guest: Mehdi Medjaoui.