The Copyright Office expands your security research rights
Recently, the Copyright Office responded to the calls to clarify the scope of protected security research.
Justin Colannino
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Vague infringement allegations considered harmful
Ensuring that software copyright allegations are specific and actionable benefits the entire developer ecosystem. That’s why GitHub submitted a “friend of the court” brief in the SAS Institute, Inc. v. World Programming Ltd. case before a Federal Court of Appeals.
Minimum Viable Governance: lightweight community structure to grow your FOSS projects
When you move from 1 maintainer to 1+N maintainers of your project, things can get complicated. Minimum Viable Governance (MVG) is a simple, easy-to-implement governance framework for your free and open source projects.
What’s up with these new not-open source licenses?
Understanding the movement of ‘single source’ companies from ‘open source’ to ‘source available’ licenses In the last nine months since joining GitHub’s policy team, I’ve been asked repeatedly about a…
FUD chills: GitHub stands with security researchers on DMCA Section 1201
Security research makes us all safer, but too often developers face ambiguous rules and possible criminal liability when they do quality assurance work to find security holes in their stack.…
Take action: DMCA anti-circumvention and developer innovation
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 22-year old United States law meant to strike a complicated balance between art, code, and speech on the net — impacting users…