Josh and Kurt talk about contributor license agreements (CLAs). CLAs used to be seen as a necessary evil, but they’re almost certainly bad now. We’re seeing CLAs being abused, it’s clear now anything controlled by a CLA won’t be open source forever. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_396_CLAs_are_bad_Mkay.mp3 Show Notes A Theory of Joint Authorship for Free and Open Source Software Projects Bruce Perens: What Comes After Open Source
Josh and Kurt talk about the HashiCorp license change and copyright problems in open source. This isn’t the first and won’t be the last time we see this, but it’s very likely open source developers and communities will view any project that has a contributor license agreement as a problem moving forward. https://traffic.libsyn.com/opensourcesecuritypodcast/Episode_389_What_would_HashiCorp_do.mp3 Show Notes Josh’s BSidesLV talk Hacker News marked site as malware HashiCorp license change A Theory of Joint Authorship for Free and Open Source Software Projects