Software is in the center of growth for all technology companies today. Whether it’s an automotive company trying to build an autonomous car or just optimizing the performance of their combustion engine, a telecom company, a cloud provider, a finance institution, or any other technology company, they all need to become software authorities.
Software development is to a large extent about re-use of code and successful technology companies need to master open source which is the main source of software components today. But success is also about being able to protect the ideas and the companies’ specific domain expertise.
To re-use and share software may be contradictory to protecting proprietary software assets and that contradiction defines the importance of compliance in any technology company. Open source compliance is the key to consumption, contributions and to successful community interaction. Once the development strategy, policies and directives are defined, compliance is all about implementation.
It’s not about policing the engineers; it is about enabling engineers to securely tap into the vast open source software resources available in order to create the most efficient software development organizations in their respective technology domains.
In this talk, Oskar Swirtun (Founder and CEO of FOSSID) will discuss the problems enterprises face when it comes to implementing successful open source software strategies and will explore various compliance flows that will enable enterprises to have faster and more effective development, better community interaction, and lasting differentiation for technology companies.
Open Source is "open source" because of the license the developer of the code decided to release under. Time to market is key for business, so suddenly getting stalled out, and not able to ship a hot new product due to licensing issues in the code, is every product managers nightmare.
As the software development landscape has increased in complexity, components being re-used, being able to accurately and efficiently understanding the licensing is key. This talk will summarize some of the open projects that will help us get to an automated summarizing of licensing obligations and next steps we shoul consider.
