Index

Welcome to this newsletter from the Professorship of Open Source Software! Upcoming talks on commercial open sourceCall for participation in remote work researchCall for participation in interview study on microservicesIs your product legally defective?Subscribe / unsubscribe 1. Upcoming talk...

Abstract: Code review is one of the most important quality assurances of today's software development in open source as well as in industrial context. A side effect of reviewing code is the possibility of sharing knowledge between developers. While this is a common finding in software engineering r...

Abstract: An open source license specifies all rights granted and obligations imposed to the user of the open source software. However, researcher and practitioners are faced with a large diversity of open source licenses. This can lead to a lot time and effort spent on examining the different lice...

Abstract: As the software industry grows fast, the competition to produce high-quality software as quickly as possible, made the reusability of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) famous, but with features come challenges and risks. The main issue with FLOSS is license compliance among the ...

Abstract: The JValue Open Data Service (ODS) is an open source application, founded and developed by the professorship of Open Source Software of the Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen Nürnberg (FAU). The application aims to become the go-to place for developers and data scientists around th...

Abstract: In a world of “Big Data” and data transparency “open data” might not be considered as an unknown term anymore. As the name suggests, it describes data, that is commonly available and free to use for everyone. The vision of the software “JValue Open Data Service (ODS)” is to provide a soli...

Students, please read. PROD is being replaced by COSS. Teaching in the winter semester at FAU will start on Nov 2nd, 2020. We will be teaching two classic courses, Advanced Design and Programming (ADAP) and Nailing your Thesis (NYT), our course on how to perform research. All courses will be hel...