Episode 5: Trademark Versus Copyright to Sustain OSS with Mehdi Medjaoui

Sponsors



Cachefly


Panel



Richard Littauer




Jon Schlinkert




Eric Berry




Joined By Special Guest: Mehdi Medjaoui
Episode Summary

Mehdi Medjaoui is the Steering Committee Member of The
Maintainers and the founder of OAuth.io and APIdays Conferences.
He is also the EU commission 2020 expert on open data and open
APIs. He has co-authored O’Reilly Book “Continuous API
management” and created the Maintainers Contract and ALIAS
protocol. Mehdi and the panel shine a light on the lack of
compensation for developers that maintain open source projects. A
majority of these projects are used by many profitable end
products but these profits do not make its way back to the
developers that contribute with their open source code. The panel
explores the best methods to write open source code and still be
recognized for the development effort via trademark, licensing
and copyright.
Links



Mehdi's LinkedIn




Mehdi's Twitter




Mehdi Medjaoui – Medium




Sustain 2018




Tidelift




Open Source Initiative




The Market for Lemons




FOSSmarks




Contributor License Agreement




Why I Do Not Support a Node Foundation by Eran Hammer




https://www.fundthecode.org/




A Trademark-based contract for OSS maintainers




https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch




IBM closes $34 billion Red Hat acquisition: Now it's time to
deliver




Walmart's investment in open source isn't cheap


Picks

Eric Berry:




Making Uncommon Knowledge Common




SuperHuman marketing efforts




Jon Schlinkert:




Crossing the Chasm




The Profit Zone




Richard Littauer:




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cherry_Orchard




The Great Book of Amber




https://www.davidwhyte.com/




Mehdi Medjaoui:




https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code




https://increment.com/


Special Guest: Mehdi Medjaoui.