OSI signs an MOU with the Korea Software Copyright Committee

I visited Seoul last week to represent OSI at an open source conference and to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Korea Software Copyright Committee (SOCOP). SOCOP organized a conference with the title “Free Open Source Software License Insight Conference”, and the international speakers included Brett Smith of the FSF, Brendan Scott of Open Source Law, Michael Cot√© of RedMonk and myself. From the questions we received, it seems that there is a lot of interest in legal questions related to open source. There were a number of folks from hardware companies that asked specific questions what they could do and couldn’t do (e.g. related to including sources for GPL code and properly giving credit for BSD code).

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