Open Source Licenses with Matt McInnis, Tom Cudd, and Ray Dec

Join hosts Bekah and Dan with guests Matt McInnis, Ray Deck, and Tom Cudd, as they chat about the complicated topic of open source software (OSS) licenses. They share insights into how to choose the appropriate license, how to understand licenses on other projects, and general guidelines for maintainers and contributors.

Links:

• ChooseALicense.com by GitHub
• Example of clarifying subfolders in the LICENSE: TensorFlow’s models repo.
• Example of a License section in the README indicating what parts of the repo the license applies to: OpenAI’s Whisper model. 
• Example of a paid product with an open source license: CraftCMS

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About Matt

Matt is a full-stack developer (Rails+React) at Typist based in Toronto, Canada. Former artificial intelligence lead at IBM and Microsoft, mathematics professor at Centennial College and Saskatchewan Polytechnic. He really loves brunch.

• @MattyMc on GitHub
• @MattLovesMath on Twitter

About Tom

As an advocate for DevOps within teams and communities, Tom strives to bring positive change in the way Development and Operations teams work together. Tom loves to help people learn about teams, leadership, infrastructure, cloud, and automation.

• tomcudd.com
• @tomcudd on GitHub
• @tomcudd on Twitter

About Ray

Veteran leader of technology teams and startup companies over the last 20 years. Most recently founder of Statechange.ai, a learning community for solving the hardest 5% of no-code/low-code/AI-code challenges.

• raydeck.com
• statechange.ai
• @rhdeck on GitHub
• @ray_deck on Twitter

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