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Taiwan Companies in the FOSS Implementation: From the Perspective of Legal Consultation Practice
Open Source Software Foundry, CITI, Academia Sinica Taiwan
Florence T.M. Ko ／葛冬梅 Legal Specialist
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +886-2-27883799 #1474
This presentation file is the simplified version of the original one and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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Tax LawGenetic Modified Food Regulation
Subsidy LawIP Securitization
Energy LawFOSS Licensing
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OSSFOpen Source Software Foundry
domestic community3 teams
9 employees
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Technical Team
● OpenFoundry: online project hosting platform– FOSS projects– Projects of university professors subsidized by National
Science Council, NSC.
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Promotion and Outreach Team
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Legal Team
do research
spread information
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1. Law and Licensing2. Legal Column3. Talk
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Legal Team
do research
spread information
provide consultation
arrange event
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face-to-face meetingtelephone conference
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Main FOSS-related organizations/projects in Taiwan
FOSS-related organizations/projects in TaiwanAbbr. Full Name Main Mission
OSSF Open Source Software Foundry accelerate development of domestic community with legal consultation
SLAT Software Liberty Associate, Taiwan
advance related policies
OSSACC Open Source Software Application Consulting Centre
application in schools
TLC Taiwan Linux Consortium commercial application
III Institute of Information Industry technical development
NCHC National Center for High-Performance Computing
technical development
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Different kinds of questions
● Content of licenses● Compatibility between licenses● Release of source code● Assistance to correct the infringement program or
product● ......
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Overview of consultation events from 2007-2011
YearConsultation events
Industry & Government
Community & Universities
I/C ratio
2011 140 95 45 2.1 : 1
2010 120 92 28 3.3 : 1
2009 133 90 43 2.1 : 1
2008 52 37 15 2.5 : 1
2007 13 5 8 0.6 : 1
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≥ 90 events/year≥ 50% from private companies
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2006a batch of goods
an important customeran email from a community member
a company ever heard about GPL/FOSS
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Their questions...
● What is GPL? ● What is open source?● Is what the email claimed all true? How can we
know this is not a fraud email?● Do we really need to provide all source code
contained in the product? If we do, why?● We need an attorney who knows about GPL. Would
you recommend one for us?
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3 hours meetingrecommend attorney
provide license analysis when needed
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free code from internet
without obligation
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Most questions are elementary
● What is GPL? Is it a new copyright law clause? Is it valid?
● What is copyleft?● Who is Brett Smith? Who is Harald Welte? ● What is FSF? What is gpl-violations.org? ● How can I know this is not a fraud email?● Do we really need to provide all source code? If we
do, why?
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avoid being licensed under GPL
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free tool to reduce costshould be dealt with carefully
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Most questions are about how to avoid a program being licensed under GPL
● How can I keep my own code not being infected by GPL when I use GPLed component?
● If ther is a middle layer between GPLed component and my own program, should I still open the source code of my own program?
● How can people tell that a program contains GPLed code?
● I use a software licensed under Apache-2.0, what I use a software licensed under Apache-2.0, what should I notice? Should I open the source code of should I notice? Should I open the source code of my own program?my own program?
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Statistics of consultation analyses – Great Recession
Consultation events
Industry & Government
Community & Universities
I/C ratio
2011 140 95 45 2.1 : 1
2010 120 92 28 3.3 : 1
2009 133 90 43 2.1 : 1
2008 52 37 15 2.5 : 1
2007 13 5 8 0.6 : 1Great Recession
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2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 sum
GPL 50 48 49 20 2 169
LGPL 9 3 9 1 0 22
Apache 8 5 5 1 1 20
BSD 1 5 2 3 0 11
CDDL 0 4 1 0 0 5
MIT 1 0 2 1 0 4
MPL 0 0 2 0 0 2
AGPL 2 0 0 0 0 2
Artistic 1 0 0 0 0 1
Statistics of consultation events leading to specific FOSS licenses
Google Android
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free tool with obligationsshould be used
in compliance with the license terms
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Questions about how to comply with license increase
● What does this clause say?● How should I do to comply with GPL when
distributing the derived program?● We will use the following open source components
in our product. But we can't provide all source of this product due to the NDA with another company. What should we do to avoid violating GPL?
● We have some files from our partner company, which have the licensing statement like the following. Is it OK?
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attitude towards FOSSessential change
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Statistics of events leading to specific issues
2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 SUM
Compliance Process 46 25 26 16 5 118
Derivative Definition 29 18 18 9 0 74
Business Model 16 12 20 1 1 50
Separate Technique 12 10 12 5 0 39
Copyright Notice 16 9 9 3 0 37
License Compatibility 5 7 6 4 0 22
Font Issue 1 13 3 1 2 20
Patent Issue 9 5 2 3 0 19
Android Implementation 10 1 4 0 0 15
Infringement Issue 5 4 5 0 1 15
Dual-license 2 1 10 0 0 13
Trademark Issue 1 3 7 1 0 12
Cloud Service 2 4 3 0 0 9
MySQL Question 2 0 6 0 0 8
Governance Mechanism 5 0 2 0 0 7
Analysis Tool 2 2 1 0 0 5
Decoder Issue 2 0 1 0 0 3
Reinstate Issue 1 0 0 0 0 1
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Compliance Process
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philosophy of being the second
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catch up with the world trend
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Thanks for your attention!
In acknowledgement of the contribution from my partners, Lucien C.H. Lin and Joseph Y.C. Chen, to the slides.
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