1. Openness
business
Martin von Haller Grønbæk
Partner, Bender von Haller Dragsted
Lunds Universitet, Campus Helsingborg
10-09-2010
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21. Bender
von Haller
Dragsted
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22. –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
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23. –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.”
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24. –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
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26. #1
Open content
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27. Humans are
communicators
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28. 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.
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29. One way
communication
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87. Open source
initiative
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88. Open Source principles
• Free redistribution
• Source code
• Derived work
• Integrity of The Author's Source
Code
• 5-10: Non-discrimination
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89. Comply or
don’t use
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98. LEGO
Mindstorms
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99. LEGO goes open source
1 May 2006. LEGO press release
Hackers, Get Ready! LEGO Group
Announces Open Source Firmware,
Developer Kits for LEGO® MINDSTORMS®
NXT
Consumer-directed robotics experience
creation to enter “NXT” phase with open
firmware, Software, Hardware and
Bluetooth Developer Kits to launch in
August
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100. Background
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Mindstorms robots launched in 1998
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The best-selling LEGO product ever
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Huge Mindstorm community
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LEGO was and is not a software
company
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Only minor upgrades to the firmware
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Several parallel Mindstorms OS’s
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101. Challenges
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LEGO was not comfortable with “openness”
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LEGO has been and is extremely reliant on
strong IPRs
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”You don't give away IPRs for free”
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Turbulent period for LEGO in general
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Third party software included
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102. Solution
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Embrace User driven innovation
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Open source as the enabler
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Third party permission for redistribution
under an OS license
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Choice of license
− ”Genuine” open source licence
− Permissive (Academic) or Copyleft
(reciprocal license)
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103. The OS license choice
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Mozilla Public license v. 1.1
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Weak copyleft
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Modification is limited altering the
files
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“I did not understand GPL v.2”
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LEGO was only concerned with
modifications of the actual files
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104. 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!
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105. Dual
licensing
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106. CASE: MySQL
Dual-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
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107. Owner's prerogative
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The owner can decide to release under any
and as many terms she likes
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Dual licensing is only possible for owner's
own modfications
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Or assigned modifications
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Control is necessary to mitigate liability
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”Closing in” the code again
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108. 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
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109. Why pay?
• Certification of the code
• Warranties
• Maintenance and support
• Copyleft exemption
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110. Still not convinced?
• MySQL AB was in 2008 bought by
Sun Microsystem, Inc. for
approximately USD $1 billion in
total consideration
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111. 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
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112. 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
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113. Goals
• Satisfying the politicians
• Wide adoption of UDDI
• Community based improvement
of the API
• Many vendors should integrate
API into their ERP
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114. Solutions
• API
– Copyleft
– Mozilla public license v. 1.1
(maybe EUPL v. 1.1)
• Reference implementation
– Permissive licence
– FreeBSD license
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115. Latest
news
from the
front
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