Tag: FLOSS Governance

Final Thesis: Modeling FLOSS Dependencies in Products

2020-10-19 Category: 4 Theses, 4.3 Finished Theses

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 ...

Impressions from Kate Stewart’s Talk on Taking Open Source Projects Through Safety Certification

2019-06-13 Category: 5 Events and Talks, 5.2 Event and Talk Reports

On Wednesday, 12th of June, Kate Stewart, a Senior Director of Strategic Programs at the Linux Foundation, gave a well-attended talk on Taking Open Source Projects through Safety Certification. Kate spoke about the Zephyr and ELISA projects, and about the approach being used to prepare the Zephyr pr...

Kate Stewart (Linux Foundation) on Taking Open Source Projects Through Safety Certification

2019-06-07 Category: 5 Events and Talks, 5.1 Event and Talk Announcements

startseite 1 On Wednesday, 12 June, at 15:00 (room to be determined), Kate Stewart of the Linux Foundation will present her talk Taking Open Source Projects through Safety Certification.

Final Thesis: Markdown-Unterstützung für die Sweble Hub Software

2018-08-29 Category: 4 Theses, 4.3 Finished Theses

Abstract: Sweble Hub is a wiki-like, web-based collaboration platform for managing knowledge. So far, users have been able to create and edit articles using either MediaWiki’s markup language Wikitext or a visual editor. To provide users with a better selection of markup languages, the go...

Final Thesis: Open Source Governance: Getting Started Best Practices for Software Companies

2018-07-20 Category: 4 Theses, 4.3 Finished Theses

Abstract: Open Source Software offers various advantages to software product companies. In order that companies reap the benefits of OSS, organizations should establish an OSS governance program to manage OSS license compliance issues. The introduction of OSS governance could be challenging. However...

Final Thesis: A Theory of Industry Best Practices of FLOSS Governance and Compliance

2017-06-21 Category: 4 Theses, 4.3 Finished Theses

Abstract: Using open source code in commercial software development is gaining more and more momentum during the recent years. While providing benefits along all three dimensions of the software development’s magic triangle of cost, time and scope, use of open source in commercial setting holds...

Start of Open Source Governance and Compliance project

2016-10-01 Category: 2 Research, 2.4 Grants and Funding, 2.4.2 Project Funding

Today, the Open Source Governance and Compliance project started. It is funded by a large German company. For more information, please open source governance and compliance (pool project).