Free and Open Source Licensing and RISC-V
Presented by Andrew Katz, @andrewjskatz
Andrew will present the results of his research on the current state of open core licensing, and his thoughts on the direction of travel for licensing in the future. He will also give an update on the CERN Open Hardware licence, and how V2 has been redrafted with the concerns of developers of ASICs and FPGAs.
Andrew Katz, a partner at Moorcrofts LLP, is one of the UK’s leading free and open-source lawyers. He drafted the widely-used solderpad Open Hardware Licence and is on the core legal team for drafting the CERN Open Hardware licence. Andrew is a Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe and the Open Forum Academy, and for 7 years held the post of visiting lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London. He is a visiting researcher at the University of Skövde, Sweden where he has co-authored papers whose findings have been adopted into Swedish government policy.
Andrew qualified as a barrister and was called to the bar (Inner Temple) in 1991, and has now re-qualified and practises as a solicitor in England and Wales. He is also an Irish solicitor (non-practising).
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