Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 2.3 Open Source (Building)

Challenges of tracking and documenting open source dependencies in products [OSS 2020]

Software vendors need to manage the dependencies of the open source components used in their products. Without this management, license compliance would be impossible, export restrictions could not be maintained, and security vulnerabilities would remain unknown to the vendor. The management of these dependencies has grown in an ad-hoc fashion in most companies. As such,…

2020-03-12
Managing the open source dependency (Tomas Gustavsson, IEEE Computer)

I’m happy to report that the sixth article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Managing the Open Source Dependency Keywords Computer applications, open-source software Authors Tomas Gustavsson, PrimeKey Publication Computer vol. 53, no. 2 (February 2020), pp. 83-87 Abstract: Organizations use open source software in a majority of computer…

2020-02-20
Public Seminars on License-Compliant Delivery of Products that Contain Open Source Software in Q1 of 2020

In the first quarter of 2020, there are several options for participating in our seminar on license-compliant delivery of products that contain open source software. Here is an overview (subject to change, mostly, additions) of public seminars. Date Location Language Partner 2020-03-06 Berlin German Morrison Foerster For more information and registration, please see our LCD…

2020-01-09
Industry best practices for FLOSS governance and component reuse [EuroPLoP 2019]

Abstract: Corporate use of open source in software products is on the rise. While this brings a number of technological and business benefits to companies, it also comes with potential legal and financial risks caused by license non-compliance and ungoverned use of open source components. Companies address these threats with free/libre and open source software (FLOSS)…

2019-12-08
How to select open source components (Diomidis Spinellis, IEEE Computer)

I’m happy to report that the fifth article in the new open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title How to Select Open Source Components Keywords Open Source Software, Licenses, Documentation, Computer Bugs, Software Project Management Authors Diomidis Spinellis, Athens University of Economy and Business Publication Computer vol. 52, no. 12 (December 2019),…

2019-12-03
Getting started with open source governance (Jeff McAffer, IEEE Computer)

I’m happy to report that the fourth article in the new open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Getting Started With Open Source Governance Keywords Companies, licenses, security, software, law Authors Jeff McAffer, GitHub Publication Computer vol. 52, no. 10 (October 2019), pp. 92-96 Abstract: Using and managing open source is essential…

2019-10-08