Dirk Riehle's Industry and Research Publications

Category: 1. Software Industry

  • Open source legal debt

    Open source legal debt

    Open source legal debt is unwanted open-source code in your products and projects. Code may be unwanted, if it does not fit your (a company’s) business model. An example is code that has been copied from StackOverflow into your code base. That’s because code from StackOverflow has a copyleft license, which means that as you…

  • Non-software-industry user-led open source consortia

    Non-software-industry user-led open source consortia

    tl;dr We observe sustained growth in what we call non-software-industry user-led open-source consortia. These are open-source consortia (non-profit organizations) created by companies from outside the software industry with the goal of developing the applications these companies need to run their business. Their behaviors are different from other open-source consortia and we can see this expressed…

  • Two issue break of IEEE Computer Column Open Source Expanded

    Two issue break of IEEE Computer Column Open Source Expanded

    Thanks to this editor’s inability to wield their whip effectively, the IEEE Computer magazine’s open source column is taking a two issue break: There wasn’t an August 2022 article and there won’t be an October 2022 article in IEEE Computer magazine. We will resume our regular bi-monthly schedule in December 2022. Until then you may…

  • How to think about a dependency on commercial open-source software

    How to think about a dependency on commercial open-source software

    Another day in open source land, another vendor relicensing away from an open source license to a source-available license. What was new for me this time, however, was that Apache Flink, a community open source project, had a dependency on Lightbend’s Akka, the commercial open source project that relicensed. This is surprising, because in my…

  • Problems, solutions, and success factors in the openMDM user-led open source consortium [CAIS Journal]

    Problems, solutions, and success factors in the openMDM user-led open source consortium [CAIS Journal]

    Abstract: Open-source software (OSS) development offers organizations an alternative to purchasing proprietary software or commissioning custom software. In one form of OSS development, organizations develop the software they need in collaboration with other organizations. If the software is used by the organizations to operate their business, such collaborations can lead to what we call “user-led…

  • The Four Opens: Open Source Beyond the Code (Ildikó Vancsa, IEEE Computer Column)

    The Four Opens: Open Source Beyond the Code (Ildikó Vancsa, IEEE Computer Column)

    I’m happy to report that the 21th article in the open source column of IEEE Computer has been published. Title The Four Opens: Open Source Beyond the Code Keywords — Authors Ildikó Vancsa, Open Infrastructure Foundation Publication Computer vol. 55, no. 6 (June 2022), pp. 81-84 Abstract: This article describes a set of guiding principles…