Latest in Industry and Research Publications
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![Open source license compliance in software supply chains [Book Chapter]](https://dirkriehle.com/wp-content/uploads/featured/10103-berlin-suedkreuz-no-subway-300x150.jpg)
Open source license compliance in software supply chains [Book Chapter]
Abstract: Almost all software products today include open-source components. However, the obligations that open-source licenses put on their users can be difficult or undesirable to comply with. As a consequence, software vendors and related companies need to govern the process by which open-source components are included in their products. A key process of such open-source…
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License-Compliant Delivery Seminar and Handbook
I’m proud to report that we are finally providing our license compliance seminar to the general public: License-compliant Delivery of Software Products That Use Open Source Software (both a seminar and a handbook). Feel free to contact me if you are interested.
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Do You Need a Macbook to Learn to Code? (Coding vs. Systems Building)
Someone on Twitter asked this question and people loved to weigh in. Most answered: “No, just get an old $200 laptop.” While not wrong, this answer misses the point. Coding, here, apparently means reading and writing code. For that, indeed, any cheap computer will do. However, being able to read and write code does not…
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Why software engineering is not like assembly line work
The other day I ran into one of the oldest software engineering tropes in the book: That software engineering should be more like work in a factory, and that developers are best equated to assembly line workers who put together a software product by assembling components to a specification. I wasn’t sure whether I should…
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![Getting started with FLOSS governance and compliance in companies [OpenSym 2019]](https://dirkriehle.com/wp-content/uploads/featured/10191-starbucks-american-breakfast-300x150.jpg)
Getting started with FLOSS governance and compliance in companies [OpenSym 2019]
Abstract: Commercial use of open source software is on the rise as more companies realize the benefits of using FLOSS components in their products. At the same time, the ungoverned use of such components can result in legal, financial, intellectual property, and other risks. To mitigate these risks, companies must govern their use of open source…
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Solving the Commercial Open Source Licensing Dilemma With Triple-Licensing
As you may have noticed, the move away from approved open source licenses to commercial almost-like-open-source licenses by single-vendor-owned open source projects has created a lot of bad press for the vendors behind such software. I don’t really understand this, because for all that I can tell, a triple-licensing rather than just a dual-licensing approach…