Category: 2.3 Open Source (Building)
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How to read open source license obligations
Interpreting open source licenses requires considerable skills and experience. Ideally, engineers and lawyers work together: Lawyers know the meaning and consequences of legal terms, and engineers can make sense of it in the context of software. There are some basics, however, that help set your thinking straight. A critical aspect is: What is a (re-)distribution…
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Open source license compliance and work-for-hire
A common question that I am asked in my seminar on license-compliant delivery of products that contain open source software is: But what about a work-for-hire? We are a consulting company: As we work for our clients, and use open source software, do we have to create all those legal notices? The answer, as so…
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Managing your open source supply chain—Why and how? (Nikolay Harutyunyan, IEEE Computer)
I’m happy to report that the eigth article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Managing Your Open Source Supply Chain—Why and How? Keywords Open Source, Software Supply Chain Authors Nikolay Harutyunyan, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg Publication Computer vol. 53, no. 6 (June 2020), pp 77-81 Abstract: More than 90% of software…