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Luis Villa is an American attorney and programmer who is Co-Founder and General Counsel for Tidelift.
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Alma mater | Columbia Law School |
Occupation | Lawyer |
Website | tieguy |
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,[1] where he worked on the revision of the Mozilla Public License (MPL). He continued that work in his next job at Greenberg Traurig[2] where he was part of the team defending Google against Oracle's claims concerning Android.[3][non-primary source needed]
Prior to graduating from Columbia Law School in 2009, he was an employee at Ximian,[4] 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[5] working on StopBadware.org.[6] He has been elected four times to the board of the GNOME Foundation.[7] He was editor-in-chief of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, and blogs regularly.[4] He was a director of the Open Source Initiative from April 2012 to March 2015.[8][9]
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.[10]