Dotan Horovits, Logz.io, CNCF Ambassador
Imagine waking up one morning to find out that your beloved open source tool, which lies at the heart of your system, is being relicensed. What does it mean? Can you still use it as before? Could the new license be infectious and require you to open source your own business logic?
This doom’s day nightmare scenario isn’t hypothetical. It is, in fact, very real, for databases, for Infrastructure-as-Code tooling, and for other OSS, with several examples over the past year alone.
On this talk Horovits will review some of the less known risks of open source, and share his lessons learned facing such relicensing moves, as well as other case studies from the past few years. If you use OSS, you’ll learn how to safeguard yourself. If you’re in the process of evaluating a new OSS, you’ll learn to look beyond the license and consider additional criteria. If you're debating open-sourcing a project, you'll gain important perspectives to consider.
Dotan Horovits, Logz.io, CNCF Ambassador
Horovits lives at the intersection of technology, product and innovation. With over 20 years in the hi-tech industry as a software developer, a solutions architect and a product manager, he brings a wealth of knowledge in cloud and cloud-native solutions, DevOps practices and more.
Horovits is an international speaker and thought leader, as well as an Ambassador of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Horovits is an avid advocate of open source and communities, an organizer of the CNCF Tel-Aviv meetup group and of Kubernetes Community Days and DevOpsDays local events, a podcaster at OpenObservability Talks, and a blogger, among others.
Currently working as the principal developer advocate at Logz.io, Horovits evangelizes on Observability in IT systems using popular open source projects such as Prometheus, OpenSearch, Jaeger and OpenTelemetry.
author = {Dotan Horovits},
title = {When Your Open Source Turns to the Dark Side},
year = {2024},
address = {San Francisco, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}