Join us online to hear from the practitioners and experts creating a new generation of public software licenses. Description How can software licenses protect the intentions of software creators? How can we engineer better business models that help software communities thrive? Why have new software licenses stirred up controversies in the open source community? How can multi-license strategies be used effectively? We will answer these questions and more as we talk about Ethical Source, Noncommercial, Strong Copyleft, Nonviolent and Digital Autonomy software licenses with the people at the forefront of creating and using them. More about our panelists CORALINE ADA EHMKE is an international speaker, writer, and developer with over 25 years of experience. Coraline has addressed the United Nations on human rights and the tech industry, created the Hippocratic License, and founded the Ethical Source Movement. Coraline is the creator of the Contributor Covenant, the most popular open source code of conduct in the world with over 40,000 adoptions. She was recognized for her work in diversity in open source with a Ruby Hero award in 2016. Find her on Twitter at @CoralineAda or on the web at https://where.coraline.codes/. HEATHER MEEKER is an attorney in private practice whose specializes in drafting and negotiating intellectual property transactions for software and other technology clients. She is a partner at O’Melveny & Myers, and a founding portfolio partner at Open Source Software Capital, a VC fund that does early stage investments in commercial open source software development. She served as an adjunct professor at Hastings College of the Law, and at the UC Berkeley School of Law. Ms. Meeker is the author of Open Source for Business, now in its Third Edition, and is an internationally renowned expert on open source licensing law. She is a member of the American Law Institute and has served as an advisor on the projects for the Principles of the Law (Software Contracts) and the Restatement of Copyright Law. Ms. Meeker has degrees with honors from Yale College and U.C. Berkeley School of Law. She clerked for United States Circuit Judge John Porfilio Moore of the Tenth Circuit. KYLE MITCHELL is founder of LicenseZero.com and the PolyFormProject.org which provide standardized software licenses in plain language including Prosperity, Parity, noncommercial, noncompete, trial and many others. Kyle is an attorney and software developer. He writes extensively about software licenses at kemitchell.com NOAH THORP is founder of CoMakery, a platform to gather your community to work on projects together. The CoMakery Server code was recently published under a noncomercial nonviolent public software license. Noah has lead work on many legal-technical systems including private market exchanges, crowdfunding & security token systems with SharesPost, Republic (Note Token, PROPS) and Nasdaq Private Market. He co-founded a holacratically organized venture studio in 2014 where he lead DAO, decentralized reputation and security token projects for fortune 100 companies & startups. Noah works on the future of organizations through CoMakery Labs and is a co-organizer of the SF Legal Hackers. LUIS VILLA is co-founder of Tidelift - a new way to support and use open source software. He is a lawyer, executive, and (former) software developer, specializing in open source licensing, product counseling, technology transactions, and community strategy. Before Tidelift he worked with some of the most high-profile technology projects in the world including as Deputy General Counsel of Wikimedia Foundation, leading the revision of the Mozilla Public License, volunteering on the board of directors of the Open Source Initiative and as an invited expert at the World Wide Wide Web Consortium. Photo of the Whanganui New Zealand river with legal personhood; Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licensed by Keith Miller.