Please join us for a discussion on open-source software (OSS) to gain a better understanding of the benefits and challenges of OSS and its connection with permissive and copyleft licenses, compatibility issues, and the intersection of OSS and artificial intelligence.

Topics will include:

• The background of OSS
• The most popular open-source licenses
• OSS community norms
• Best practices for using OSS
• Processes for analyzing OSS use requests
• Best practices for contributing to OSS projects, including an OSS compatibility analysis
• The intersection of OSS and AI
• OSS in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and sample OSS representations for M&A deals