Category: 2.3 Open Source (Building)
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Tools for software composition analysis (Philippe Ombredanne, IEEE Computer)
I’m happy to report that the tenth article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Free and Open Source Software License Compliance: Tools for Software Composition Analysis Keywords Open Source Software, Software Composition, Open Source Licenses, Automation Authors Philippe Ombredanne, nexB Inc. Publication Computer vol. 53, no. 10 (October 2020),…
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A researcher’s perspective on “Do developers care about open source?”
Senior developers weigh costs and benefits when deciding what code components to use
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The German Corona Warn App, a legally defective product?
By all measures, the German Corona Warn app is already a highly successful software product. However, from the perspective of open source license compliance, it is defective. Using open source code in your product requires that you fulfill the obligations of the open source licenses of that code, and the Corona Warn app does not…