Month: August 2025

The quotable guide to “why contribute to open source projects”

I provided the following quotes to the Open Logistics Foundation’s member magazine, where they were published in German and in somewhat modified form. Here are the original quotes. Managing your dependencies “Using an open source component creates a dependency on that component. If this dependency is important, the most effective way to manage the dependency…

2025-08-22
Open source license obligations: Attribution and copyleft [Computer Magazine]

I’m happy to report that the 36th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. As always, please consider writing an article proposal! Title Open Source License Obligations: Attribution and Copyleft Keywords Open source, open source license, open-source software, copyleft, attribution […] Authors Dirk Riehle Publication Computer vol. 58, no. 8…

2025-08-03

The quotable guide to “why contribute to open source projects”