Jilayne Lovejoy
Commercial Counsel at Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX)
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJilayne Lovejoy is an internationally recognized commercial counsel and open source legal expert with 11 years of focused experience advising product teams, negotiating software and SaaS agreements, and leading M&A due diligence on IP and licensing matters. Based in Boulder, she currently supports Red Hat’s product legal needs and has led legal strategy for major engineering organizations like Arm and Canonical, creating open source policies and streamlined processes that balance community norms with commercial realities. A long-standing leader in the SPDX project—co-leading its legal team and maintaining the SPDX License List since inception—she helped author project governance and champions software bill-of-material standards across the ecosystem. Beyond counsel, she builds practical tooling and education: developing OpenChain-aligned training, an open source compliance framework, and revenue-generating workshops that translate complex license issues into usable business practices. CIPP/US certified and an accomplished public speaker, Jilayne combines deep technical-community credibility with pragmatic, business-facing legal solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Environmental Conservation / Women's Studies, Bachelor’s Degree, Environmental Conservation / Women's Studies at University of Colorado BoulderJuris Doctor, Juris Doctor at University of Denver - Sturm College of Law
English, Spanish
Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jlovejoy/license-list-XML
Feb 2023 - Nov 2024
This is the repository for the master files that comprise the SPDX License List
Contributions:224 pushes, 74 branches in 1 year 9 months
spdx/license-list-XML
Mar 2016 - Jan 2023
This is the repository for the master files that comprise the SPDX License List
Contributions:1 release, 74 reviews, 1091 commits in 6 years 11 months
schematronlicensingspdx-licensexmlmaster
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