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julia ferraioli

Developers make legal decisions everyday without consulting a lawyer, just by choosing open source software to use. But how well-equipped are they to make judgement calls on legal documents? This month, we look at research around that very question.

juliaferraioli.com/blog/2023/i

julia ferraioli · Understanding open source licensesHow developers interpret and understand open source licenses, with a love letter to good research.

@juliaferraioli Hey, that’s me! Mostly my co-authors, really, but a bit me.

Despite my best efforts I could not convince my co-authors to go with an abstract that read, in its entirety, “Nope”. That would have been great.