Difference between revisions of "White paper: Publishing Source Code for FOSS Compliance"

Latest revision as of 12:50, 4 July 2016

This paper discusses the aspect of publishing source code in meeting license obligations. It presents a sample process to follow when making source code available and offers checklists that user can use prior and post source code publication.

White paper main segment

Topics covered by this paper include the following:

• How to decide on source code’s publication model?
• Preparing source code packages
• How to create and fulfill a pre-publication Checklist
• Publishing source code process
• How to create and fulfill post-publication Checklist

Conclusion

This paper provides a practical discussion on the process of making source code available as part of meeting FOSS license obligations.

In addition, this paper also showed that the implementation of open source compliance processes can vary from company to company based on a number of factors: the underlying product development process into which compliance must fit, the size and nature of the code base, number of products turned out, the amount of externally supplied code, size and organizational structure of the company, and so on.

But the core elements of compliance usually remain the same:

• Identifying the open source in the code base
• Reviewing and approving its use
• Satisfying obligations

Full White Paper

Publishing Source Code for FOSS Compliance - By The Linux Foundation