[$] Protecting the open-source license commons

Richard Fontana has a long history working with open-source licenses incommercial environments. He came to the 2018Open Source Summit Europe with a talk that, he said, had never beforebeen presented outside of "secret assemblies of lawyers"; it gave aninteresting view of licenses as resources that are shared within thecommunity and the risks that this shared nature may present. While ourlicenses have many good properties, including a de factostandardization role, those properties come with some unique and increasingrisks when it comes to litigation.