Open business helsingborg (10 09-2010)

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Martin von Haller GrønbækPartner, Bender von Haller Dragsted

Lunds Universitet, Campus Helsingborg 10-09-2010

Openness business

torsdag den 23. september 2010

My meme!

Openness is a

Panacea!

Democratic

€torsdag den 23. september 2010

•Open content

•Open code

•Open data

•Other things open

•Open (personal) data

My background

Lawyers and priest

Candy storetorsdag den 23. september 2010

Class’funds

Lowest common denominator

Gallerie MM

Academic career?

Ph.D....

InternetJura

Firenze, Berkeley og Columbia

Araneum

vonhaller.dk

Bendervon Haller Dragsted

–Attorney-at-law, Bender von Haller Dragsted–Co-founder, Open Source Vendors Ass. (OSL)–Editorial board IFOSSLR–Co-founder, Creative Commons DK–Co-founder, Danish Internet Society Chapter–Legal advisor to Umbraco and Composite–Experience with GPL enforvement in Denmark

–Legal500: “At IT boutique Bender von Haller Dragsted, Martin von Haller Grønbæk is the Danish expert on open source and emerging issues around Web 2.0 and internet law.”

–http://www.bvhd.dk–http://openlife.dk–http://www.vonhaller.dk–http://www.linkedin.com/in/vonhaller

–http://www.23hq.com/mhg–http://www.slideshare.net/vonhaller

–http://www.facebook.com/vonhaller

–mhg@bvhd.dk–martin@groenbaek.net–groenbaek@gmail.com

#1Open content

Humans are communicators

EMRK art 10, Stk. 1. Enhver har ret til ytringsfrihed. Denne ret omfatter meningsfrihed og frihed til at modtage eller meddele oplysninger eller tanker, uden indblanding fra offentlig myndighed og uden hensyn til landegrænser. Denne artikel forhindrer ikke stater i at kræve, at radio-, fjernsyns- eller filmforetagender kun må drives i

henhold til bevilling.

One waycommunication

Censorship

Propaganda

Consumersof

Information

(Relatively) passive recipients

New technologychanges the world

The BIG break-through

Democratization of sending and receiving

information

ReadWrite web

Post dotcom

Web 2.0torsdag den 23. september 2010

“Participatory culture”

MashUps

eFolklore

Cultural and

creative surplus

Innovation and business

Democracy

Copyright makes sense

But copyright

is part of a social

contract

Copyright shall promote innovation

and growth

Not stiffle innovation

Not protect special

interests

Not criminalize an entire

generation

There is no 11th commandment!

Human rights rank above copyrights

Copyright needs rebalancing

The legislature has been highjacked by

lobbyist

A market for content can

providerebalancing

FlexibilityTransperancy

Access

Fair licenses!

Human readable!torsdag den 23. september 2010

Totalt søgbart!torsdag den 23. september 2010

CC is international

KODA gets it

More specifically:Nordic governments

should release content under CC!

#2Open source

Open Sovs

“Open not as in free beer but as in

freedom”

Four freedoms

#1 Use the

application for whatever you

#2 Access the source code

#3 Delete, change, amend

and so on

#4 Give away, sell all the

copies you desire

Communisme ?

Cancer?torsdag den 23. september 2010

Cathedral or ?

Bazaar?torsdag den 23. september 2010

Free vs. Opentorsdag den 23. september 2010

Open source initiative

Open Source principles

• Free redistribution• Source code• Derived work• Integrity of The Author's Source

Code• 5-10: Non-discrimination

Comply or don’t use

Give credit!torsdag den 23. september 2010

Open source and

copyrighttorsdag den 23. september 2010

Open source licenses• Academic or permissive licenses

–Apache License v2–MIT License–New BSD license

• Copyleft, reciprocal or hereditary licences–Weak copyleft

•Artistic license v1•Eclipse Public License•Mozilla Public License v.1.1

–Strong copyleft•GNU GPL v1-3•GNU LGPL v1-3

GPL is a

here-ditary

License!torsdag den 23. september 2010

Open source and

trademarkstorsdag den 23. september 2010

Open source and patents

Patent trolls

LEGO Mindstorms

LEGO goes open source

1 May 2006. LEGO press release

Hacke r s , Ge t Ready ! LEGO Group Announces Open Source F i rmware, Developer Kits for LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT

Consumer-directed robotics experience creation to enter “NXT” phase with open f i rmware, Sof tware, Hardware and Bluetooth Developer Kits to launch in August

Background● Mindstorms robots launched in 1998● The best-selling LEGO product ever● Huge Mindstorm community● LEGO was and is not a software

company● Only minor upgrades to the firmware● Several parallel Mindstorms OS’s

Challenges● LEGO was not comfortable with “openness”● LEGO has been and is extremely reliant on

strong IPRs● ”You don't give away IPRs for free”● Turbulent period for LEGO in general● Third party software included

Solution● Embrace User driven innovation● Open source as the enabler● Third party permission for redistribution

under an OS license● Choice of license

− ”Genuine” open source licence− Permissive (Academic) or Copyleft

(reciprocal license)

The OS license choice● Mozilla Public license v. 1.1● Weak copyleft● Modification is limited altering the

files● “I did not understand GPL v.2”● LEGO was only concerned with

modifications of the actual files

The “beauty” of the solution!• Huge press coverage and goodwill• Large number of downloads of code• Much more “intelligence” in the bricks• Convincing strategy towards

competitors• Option to “close” the code again

• Many more bricks sold!

Dual licensing

CASE: MySQLDual-licensing

• The software company perspective• The same code is licensed under two

different licences:–MySQL Community Server: GPL v.2

with FOSS exception–MySQL Enterprise: Commercial license

Owner's prerogative

● The owner can decide to release under any and as many terms she likes

● Dual licensing is only possible for owner's own modfications

● Or assigned modifications● Control is necessary to mitigate liability● ”Closing in” the code again

Copyright and control• MySQL has exclusive copyright to

the code• MySQL controls and certifies the

code• The GPL does not give any rights

to use MySQLs trademarks

Why pay?

• Certification of the code• Warranties• Maintenance and support• Copyleft exemption

Still not convinced?

• MySQL AB was in 2008 bought by Sun Microsystem, Inc. for approximately USD $1 billion in total consideration

CASE: NITA

• Danish National IT and Telecom Agency

• eFaktura (NemHandel) • Electronic invoices to, from and

between public agencies• Core service: UDDI registry for

webservice to identify senders and receivers

Challenges• Two applications provided by

NITA to user (e.g. ERP vendors)• API between users’ ERPs and

UDDI WS• Reference implementation

integrating API with ERP• NITA wanted to release the

application under an OS license

• Satisfying the politicians• Wide adoption of UDDI• Community based improvement

of the API• Many vendors should integrate

API into their ERP

Solutions• API

–Copyleft–Mozilla public license v. 1.1

(maybe EUPL v. 1.1)

• Reference implementation–Permissive licence–FreeBSD license

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