These are some things I heard at last week‘s FSFE Legal & Licensing Workshop in Berlin. Since the event operated under Chatham House Rules, nobody is credited. Open Source What I heard: Software Heritage is going to scan the whole archive for licensing and vulnerability information. At least a ScanCode scan will be done (I think being managed with the Open Source Review Toolkit). They have only one-time access to a French supercomputer and are asking for use cases and kinds of metadata that people find useful. What I heard: A huge ScanCode improvement may be in the works. I have no further information, and it’s not my story to tell anyway. What I heard: There is an unfair business practices based lawsuit about Open Source licensing currently in Germany. I have long wondered why nobody seems to go that route. Asking around, the German lawyers said that it is a viable route, but rarely attractive. What I heard: Vizio has challenged the tentative ruling, so the third-party beneficiary…
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