I promised at PyCon I’d post my slides. It took me longer than it should have. The deck is here.

Matt Asay suggests that a definition for an open source company would be:

An open source company is one that, as its core revenue-generating business, actively produces, distributes, and sells (or sells services around) software under an OSI-approved license.

So, supposing that a company produces a software product. It is released under the GPL (or other [...]

Nat asks a difficult question. One that I am frequently in the habit of posing, although not as straightforwardly. For example, the copyright notice for Windows XP (I haven’t seen the one for Vista yet) advises us that

Portions of this product are based in part on the work of the Regents of [...]