Carlo Piana

Former Chair of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and current member of the Board, founding partner at Array. A long standing Free and open source software advocate, Carlo is a lawyer in private practice in Milano, Italy. His practice covers almost exclusively IT law with an emphasis on software licensing, antitrust, procurement, service agreements, contracts and privacy. Former General Counsel to the Free Software Foundation Europe, he has been involved in a decade-long litigation in Europe on protocols and antitrust laws in one of the largest cases ever. Editor of the Journal of Law, Technology, & Society (formerly, International Free and Open Source Software Law Review), he is a partner of OpenChain in Europe and member of the Steering Committee of the Eclipse Oniro Working Group.

Talk at SFSCON

• Edition 2024
  Cyber Resilience Act, already too late to comply?

  Compliance is dead, long live compliance
• Edition 2023
  The Future of Software Freedom

  Roundtable
• Edition 2023
  KYCS ‒ Know Your Code Sources (and let it be known)

  How Cyber Resilience Act is going to change FOSS forever and what can we do about it?
• Edition 2022
  Yocto, with great power comes legal headache

  How complex legal compliance can be in a Yocto building environment
• Edition 2021
  Aliens4friends: make yourself an alien friend

  Compliance in a complex Yocto/Bitbake-based operating system
• Edition 2020
  Howdyadoc: a Free, open source git+markdown toolchain for legal documents that just works

  How we learned to stop worrying and develop contracts as code
• Edition 2019
  Free Software legal 101
• Edition 2009
  When Cloud Computing Gets Cloudy

Workshop at SFSCON

• Edition 2012
  SMART Licensing

  Strumenti giuridici per l'Open Data: le licenze disponibili e le scelte del progetto FreeGis.net