Open Source and the Open Usage Commons, with Chris DiBona

An open source license grants rights on copyright and patents, but not trademarks. Chris DiBona has some ideas on how to address that. He has spent his career in open source, including over 15 years running Google's Open Source Programs Office, and is one of the directors of the new Open Usage Commons. It launched last week with three projects - Angular, Gerrit and Istio - transferring their trademarks. Chris joins Adam and Craig to talk about Google's work in open source, and why a new organisation is needed.

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Chatter of the week

• Software defined radio
• POGSAG
• The fuzz
• Talking to the International Space Station
• Breaker breaker

News of the week

• SUSE to acquire Rancher
  • Episode 57, with Darren Shepherd
• Open Usage Commons:
  • OUC Board announcement
  • Google announcement
  • Istio blog post
  • IBM opinion
  • Governance updates
• Operator Framework and Contour accepted into the CNCF
• BigQuery Omni
• Kubernetes has caught up with YARN according to Datamechanics
• Kubernetes networking: why is this so dang hard? by Tim Hockin
  • Episode 41
• Announcing Kustomize support for Pulumi
• Cinderella clusters from Soluble
• Google's Anthos comes to HPE Greenlake
• AWS:
  • AWS partners with Docker
  • Docker partners with AWS
  • AWS Copilot for ECS
  • cdk8s-plus
• AKS adds console RBAC and policy integration
• Kublr adds in-place upgrades and external clusters
• D2iQ want to teach you

Links from the interview

• Chris DiBona
• VA Linux
• San Mehat
• Google Search Appliance
• Maintainer of Git
• Author of Git
• Ping pong balls on a bus
• AMP joined OpenJS Foundation and has now graduated
• WASM became a W3C standard
• Google Summer of Code
  • Melange
• Open Usage Commons
  • Apache Software License v2 and GPL v3
  • Open Source Definition
  • Angular, Gerrit and Istio
  • OUC board members
• Debian Free Software Guidelines
• Google Contributor License Agreement
  • Apache Contributor License Agreement
  • Developer Certificate of Origin
• Istio governance: Steering Committee and TOC
• Silicon Valley
  • Chris's IMDB page
  • Palo Alto fiber ring (and today)
• Chris DiBona on Twitter
• Open Source at Google