Heather Meeker: Big Trends in Open Source Software and the Law

Recent months have seen important legal developments in the open source software world. Large organizations including Facebook, Google and the Linux kernel community have adopted new enforcement policies around copyright licenses. And Facebook saw major blowback over patent rules in its open source license. In this episode of "Unprecedented," O'Melveny & Myers partner Heather Meeker explains these trends and what they mean for lawyers and coders. She also talks about open source security, and the challenges open source projects face in dealing with sexual harassment amid the movement. Read the full show notes at

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Heather Meeker: Big Trends in Open Source Software and the Law is an episode from Unprecedented by Ben Hancock.

This episode is 37:26 long.

This episode was published on Jan 9, 2018.

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