Category: 1.2 Open Source (Industry)
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Using open source in commercial products (15min. video, slides; Oct 2021)
Today I gave a talk at Open Source Forum Oldenburg on the challenges of using open source in commercial products. Please find a generic video recording below. The slides are also available.
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Open source hardware (Hannig & Teich, IEEE Computer)
I’m happy to report that the 17th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Open Source Hardware Keywords Open Source Hardware, Integrated Circuits, Ecosystems, Hardware, Open Source Software Authors Frank Hannig, Jürgen Teich Publication Computer vol. 54, no. 10 (October 2021), pp 111-115 Abstract: Hardware that can be manufactured…
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Making open source project health transparent (Goggins et al., IEEE Computer)
I’m happy to report that the 16th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title Making Open Source Project Health Transparent Keywords Open source software Authors Sean P. Goggins, Matt Germonprez, Kevin Lumbard Publication Computer vol. 54, no. 8 (August 2021), pp 104-111 Abstract: This article explores the Community Health…
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The wrong first question: Which open source license?
When thinking about creating an open source project, starting with the question which license to choose is the wrong approach. Rather, you should ask yourself: Why am I creating this open source project and what do I want to achieve with it? Once you have settled this question, you can use the following simplified cheat…
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The future resurgence of copyleft
In 2009, half of open source code was licensed under the GPLv2 license, the canonical copyleft license. Every other license had less than 10% market share. Over the years, the MIT license and other permissive licenses kept climbing at the expense of the GPLv2. As of today, the MIT license is the leading license with…
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Open source project licensing
In a well-working community open source project, many people contribute. In particular, software developers will submit code contributions. As a consequence, without further measures, the copyright in the project’s code will be widely shared among its contributors. To ensure that a project can be used without fear of violating someone’s intellectual property rights, all project…