Robert Carolina

About me

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I have spent my career as a lawyer specialising in information and communications technologies.

I now serve as General Counsel with Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), a not-for-profit organisation with staff dispersed around the world, that has spent decades pursuing and refining the opensource development process.

I am also a Senior Fellow at Royal Holloway University of London Information Security Group, where I engage with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics graduate students to help them embrace and manage a variety of legal issues. And I am the author of the “law and regulation knowledge area” in CyBOK: the cyber security body of knowledge.

Although my formative legal education was in the United States, I have lived and worked in London, England, continuously since 1992.

Why I am running

Over many years of practice experience, I’ve read, reviewed, drafted, and negotiated thousands of software licenses with a variety of companies around the world.

From everything I have seen, it is the success of open source software that gives me the greatest hope for the future of software development and the stability of software systems generally. I want to use my experience and expertise to help the OSI encourage the growth and stability of open source development.

My entire career is founded on a desire to bridge the gap of understanding between different knowledge communities: software developers, businesspeople, lawyers, and public policy experts. I have a track record of success bridging this gap for the benefit of students, developers, clients, and many others.

I hope I can do the same for OSI.

Contact

I welcome your questions. You can reach me through LinkedIn.