OSS Watch Briefings

Gathered here are short briefings on various aspects of open source development or deployment.

European Union Public Licence - An Overview
Planning for sustainability
What kind of licence should I choose?
Wookie: a case study in sustainability
Essential tools for running a community-led project
Open innovation in software
App stores and openness
Roles in open source projects
Release management in open source software projects
Best practice in release management for open source projects
Software Sustainability Maturity Model
Sustainability lessons for research infrastructure
How to engage OSS Watch in support of your project bid
Open source and open innovation
Community lessons for research infrastructure
Open source and research infrastructure
Governance models
Meritocratic governance model
Benevolent dictator governance model
Creating a project on SourceForge
Microsoft: an end to open hostilities?
Free and open source software business and sustainability models
The Eclipse Public License - An Overview
ATutor LMS: a case study
Making your code available under an open source licence
Advice for project bids
The fundamentals of free and open source software
Open source: facing a skills shortage
Reuse Readiness Rating
TexGen: a case study
Avoiding abandon-ware: getting to grips with the open development method
The business of open source
Meritocrats, cluebats and the open development method: an interview with Justin Erenkrantz
Free and open source software in mobile devices
The JISC Virtual Research Environment Phase Two Programme: Attitudes to and Awareness of Open Development
Community source vs open source
The community source development model
Sustainable open source
Decision factors for open source software procurement
Richard Stallman on the road less travelled
Is open source software insecure? An introduction to the issues
GNU Affero General Public License v3 - An Overview
MediaWiki: a case study in sustainability
Free and open source software and your patents
Common Public Attribution License - An Overview
How to build an open source community
What is a software patch?
Contributor Licence Agreements
WebPA: the road to sustainability
Apache Cocoon: a case study in sustainability
GPL v3 - What's New?
Creating a new Google Code project
MailScanner: a case study in sustainability
Moodle: a case study in sustainability
Exim: a case study in sustainability
Benefits of Open Source Code
Project Catalogues and Project Descriptors using DOAP
Open Source Leadership: Debian
Dual Licensing
Can you contribute code to an open source project?
The Apache License v2 - An Overview
The Mozilla Public License - An Overview
The Modified BSD License - An Overview
The GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 - An Overview
The GNU General Public License v2 - An Overview
Creative Commons and Open Content
A guide to participating in an open source software community
Software Patents
Open Source Development - An Introduction to Ownership and Licensing Issues
What is version control? Why is it important for due diligence?
Top Tips for Selecting Open Source Software

Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 (first published May 2004)
Author: Randolph Metcalfe

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