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American computer programmer
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Luis Villa
Villa in 2013
Alma mater
Columbia Law School
Occupation
Lawyer
Website
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Luis Villa
is an American attorney and programmer who is co-founder and general counsel for Tidelift.
Previously he worked as deputy general counsel and then as senior director of community engagement at the
Wikimedia Foundation
, and prior to that he was an attorney at
Mozilla
where he worked on the revision of the
Mozilla Public License
(MPL). He continued that work in his next job at
Greenberg Traurig
where he was part of the team defending Google against
Oracle's claims concerning Android
non-primary source needed
Prior to graduating from
Columbia Law School
in 2009, he was an employee at
Ximian
which was acquired by
Novell
in 2003. He spent a year as a "senior geek in residence" at Harvard's
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
working on
StopBadware.org
He has been elected four times to the board of the
GNOME Foundation
He was editor-in-chief of the
Columbia Science and Technology Law Review
, and blogs regularly.
He was a director of the
Open Source Initiative
from April 2012 to March 2015.
In 2017 he co-founded Tidelift, which seeks to improve the ecosystem around open source software by providing support for professional teams using open source and helping maintainers build sustainable businesses around their projects.
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"Addition to Planet Mozilla"
. Blog.mozilla.com. 2009-12-12. Archived from
the original
on 2012-04-02
. Retrieved
2014-04-22
ris (2011-01-07).
"Villa: Changing Jobs"
. Lwn.net
. Retrieved
2014-04-22
Monterrey, Carlos (17 April 2014).
"Luis Villa: "I wanted to be an Internet lawyer"
Wikimedia Blog
. Wikimedia Foundation
. Retrieved
1 June
2014
Byfield, Bruce (2008-04-18).
"Portrait: Luis Villa, from Bugzilla to bar association"
. Linux.com
. Retrieved
2015-04-05
"Berkman Center page"
. Cyber.law.harvard.edu. 2008-01-02
. Retrieved
2014-04-22
"Interview with CNet"
. News.cnet.com
. Retrieved
2014-04-22
"Villa's election to Gnome Foundation Board"
. Mail.gnome.org. 2007-12-24
. Retrieved
2014-04-22
Phipps, Simon (2012-03-19).
"OSI's new Board"
. OSI. Archived from
the original
on 2020-10-27
. Retrieved
2015-04-05
Masson, Patrick (2015-03-18).
"OSI Board Meeting Minutes"
. OSI
. Retrieved
2015-04-05
"Our mission"
Tidelift
. Retrieved
20 February
2018
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