2025-03-10 –, Auditorium
What about the licensing of AI and AI generated artifacts? Can AI be Open Source? FOSS licensing is not all about code, it is also about AI models, icons, fonts, documents, music, etc. This talk will lead you from FOSS to AI, considering potential licenses for (AI generated) non-code and the question whether code-licenses are suitable for non-code.
We will have a closer look at licensing options for code and, in particular, non-code artifacts, describe the difficulties of licensing non-code artifacts and AI generated artifacts and break it down to some practical guidelines for developers.
Non-code artifacts refer to all content related to open source software that is not code. Artifacts like e.g. specifications, documentation, presentations, learning material where e.g. photos and graphics are used and also artifacts that are embedded in code like icons and fonts.
First we will talk about IP protected assets in software development: What content is protected, what AI generated content is protected, who owns it, (how) can you grant rights of use to third parties? And what is Open Source AI?
In the last part we want to strengthen the awareness of developers for the questions at hand. What is a no-go? What to do with self created content, AI generated content, AI modified content and embedding external content?
Dr Lina Boecker is a well experienced lawyer for information technology (IT) law and one of the few experts in the field of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) compliance and Artificial Intelligence (AI) law, advising clients on software compliance, contract law and regulatory issues. She advises a broad range of clients from software developers to international OEMs and public research institutions on all aspects of compliance processes in information technology and contractual implications of such processes.
Angelika Wittek is a self-employed software engineer and architect.
She currently works as a product manager for the openMDM(R) Eclipse Working Group and supports companies
and industry collaborations to implement their open source strategy.
She is active in the Eclipse community and is a member of the OCX program committee.
Angelika holds a degree in computer science from the University of Würzburg, Germany.